Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 14, after line 25, to insert the following:"10.The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection shall, within eighteen months of the enactment of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the role of social protection supports and services and the provision of educational opportunities for people in receipt of social welfare payments, including—

(a) an examination of the range of educational options presented to jobseekers, including those on jobseeker’s transitional payment,

(b) a consideration of access routes to further education for those in receipt of social welfare payments,

(c) a review of literacy supports offered or available to those in receipt of social welfare payments, and

(d) recommendations in relation to paragraphs (a), (b)and (c).".