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

Individuals are given exactly the same treatment. If an individual walks into a local Intreo office and needs to retrain because his or her job is in jeopardy, that person will get a personal progression plan and be offered options through Springboard, for example. It is frightening to say it but when I spoke to the Senator nearly two years ago, we did not have in-work training or the 70% payment coming from the State to help people who are currently employed to retrain while in employment to train for a new job. Such a service is available today. Anybody who wants the support of a case officer can have it but we have special case officers looking after companies in trouble. They are employment relations personnel. What we do is the same whether it is for one person or 100 people in a company. The supports are still there. We can help people with income support, training and transition to new jobs. Whether it is short-term training or long-term programme training in order to get a whole new skill set, we do it now.