Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered the paper entitled Ticket to Work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25641/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I am grateful to the Deputy for his work on developing the proposed initiative which he has entitled “Ticket to Work”. While the establishment of such a scheme would be a matter for my colleague, Richard Bruton T.D, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the first instance, consideration of any such intervention would have to be cognisant of its potential effect on the functioning of the labour market and the possible duplication of elements of existing schemes that share the same objectives. The Action Plan for Jobs 2013 outlines seven disruptive reforms which are high impact measures with ambitious deadlines. One such reform is JobsPlus which is to be delivered by the Department of Social Protection