Seanad debates
Thursday, 21 November 2002
Book of Estimates, 2003: Statements.
I do not understand one or two things. I do not understand the reason one or two areas are sacrosanct and FÁS has a budget of €2 billion per year. I always thought that it was established to solve the unemployment problem when about 300,000 were out of work. Unemployment is now very low, but the numbers on FÁS programmes are increasing all the time. I do not understand the reason its budget is going up as the number of unemployed persons decreases. Nobody will examine or challenge this phenomenon.
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