Seanad debates
Tuesday, 25 March 2003
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
Senator Kenneally mentioned the student summer jobs scheme which has been of great benefit, particularly in the environmental area. Now that it is gone something else should be put in its place. I think particularly of work done under FÁS which we have been told cannot be done. Students participating in summer schemes often did work with the tidy towns committees or community councils which used the scheme to get students to carry out necessary work. Something should be put in place through FÁS to replace it. The Minister should raise the issue with the Tánaiste.
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