Seanad debates

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

10:30 am

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

I would quite happily support this, except I do, probably far too often, find myself sticking my nose into other colleague's Departments, as I did last week with regard to the maintenance agency. What I do not want the Senator to do is to go to the Minister and say, "Regina said we should do this", and for him to get the hump. If the Senator writes to him, I will certainly write to him at the same time and support her. We should not necessarily do an annual review, but maybe a review every three or four years of the courses that are on offer to people to make sure they are timely with regard to the employment supports and jobs that are actually there, as we do not want to be training doctors if what we need are plumbers, and so on. There should be a review every three or four years and I would certainly support the Senator on that.

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