Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I disagree. As the Department has responsibility for social protection and employment, it has more than an income support remit. The Minister is both underplaying her own interest in policy and the Department's role in policy to suggest somehow that it is a policy-less Department, simply providing income. That is inaccurate, to say the least. This is about the achievement of targets that are set. I am not suggesting new targets. The targets have been set by the Government. I am asking for the vectors by which each Department intends to contribute to the achievement of the targets set by the Government.

I withdraw this amendment, but I reserve the right to re-introduce it.