John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

However, that should not be a blockage in expanding the scheme which offers real and tangible work for people who are otherwise finding it difficult to work and provides projects for communities. Regardless of whether they are projects with tourism features like the ones Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív indicated or community facilities, they play a vital role.

I urge the Minister to accelerate the review. Our frustration is that emerging communities are shut out from the programme. That is the problem. If people move from the live register onto this programme, there is an additional cost to the Minister's Department, but there is a saving elsewhere. Joined-up Government thinking is needed in order that these funds can flow from one Department to the other.

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