Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion

1:30 pm

Ms Marie Kelly:

I can give the Deputy percentages. We would break down our percentages in our returns to SOLAS as: open labour market; open, part time and full time; and then there would be the subsidies.

A very few individuals might apply for work within Rehab enterprise. They all tend to go outside, and we encourage people to go outside into employment. From the day they arrive into our centre, we are almost saying to them, "There's the door. This is your goal. Your goal is to go out there. It is for community integration. We want you to be a living, breathing member of a community and you can achieve that through your employment, or education might be your pathway to employment".

I can give percentages if the Deputy likes. It is quite a long analysis.

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