David Cullinane (Sinn Fein)

I welcome the stakeholder consultation review and the fact the sponsors, participants and supervisors will form part of it. I also welcome the commitment that no scheme will close but there is a fear that some schemes may have to curtail their services. I am not all that hung up on where the money comes from to ensure schemes can operate, whether support from the Minister's Department or through the grant which courses were getting for each participant, but I want to ensure that those schemes which are in operation and provide the services, about which the Minister and I spoke, continue in communities. I hope the outcome of the review, about which the Minister spoke, will lend itself to that and we will see not only continued but improved services from community employment schemes in this State.