Apprenticeship Programmes
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-19
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Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF), Louth

The Minister will not be shocked when I address my next contribution to him. I hope he is willing to accept it. I welcome all that has been said on mobility, whether we are talking about cross-Border, hard-to-reach communities or disability. I will return to the issue of personal assistants. I see the Minister has provided additional moneys to deal with disability in further education. People are under severe pressure and becoming apprehensive. There are other issues, however, including a long-term issue related to contracts, issues with monthly rather than weekly payments and an issue with switching to jobseeker's payments because people do not have full-time contracts.

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Sitting date: 2023-10-19