Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy can correct me if I am wrong but I would have thought that the southern region Action Plan for Jobs and the task force around that could be the body or mechanism to feed into. If not then maybe we will have to look at it and I will come back to the Deputy on it. I can only take responsibility for my Department. There are tremendous amounts of supports available in Wexford and in recognising it is lagging a little bit behind the rest of the country. There are 40 case activation officers looking at the people in the region on the live register. There are a number of training initiatives that have been developed with the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board with a wide variety of courses to go to. The Turas Nua offices there are helping people to find the real jobs that are being created. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation may need to focus in specifically on that area and come back to the Deputy. If there are blackspots or real deficits then perhaps we can sit down together and work on something in the future. I would be happy to do that.

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