Will the Minister accept that when the Government were formulating their budget proposals they had to make certain assumptions as to what the figures would be for the live register for every week for the remainder of the year? In coming to those assumptions they presumably made certain deductions about what would be the effect of the Jobsearch programme. He is the Minister who has primary charge of this programme and he should be in a position to tell this House what effect the scheme will have on the live register.

We are having repetition now.

Payments to those on the live register are part of the subheads of social welfare and that is not the responsibility of the Minister. Implicit in the Deputy's questions is that the Jobsearch scheme is a negative one. I do not accept that. I know there are great numbers of people on the long-term unemployment list for several years who have never been called to an NMS interview and have not had any opportunity to partake in a Manpower course or any other course under the aegis of my Department. This allows them to do that. A number of Deputies from all sides of the House have brought groups to me in the past week or ten days with positive proposals arising out the Jobsearch scheme, so I see a number of positive aspects in the scheme.