I have a question for the Minister for Social Protection in respect of the commitment in the programme for Government on reinforcing labour market activation that the Government "will develop our social protection services into an active employment service that works with, and helps, jobseekers to return to work". My question is on JobPath and how I and people in the community services believe that JobPath is undermining the viability of other schemes such as community employment and local employment services. My colleague, Deputy John Brady, has called on the Minister a number of times to have an immediate review of JobPath. Is the Minister prepared to do that? JobPath is a private company. It excludes people from other activation schemes, such as community employment schemes. Community schemes are not able to deliver services.

The programme for Government commitment is not about getting people onto schemes. It is about getting people into jobs. We are having enormous success in that regard. The Deputy will note from yesterday's figures that the quarterly national household survey shows that long-term unemployment in Ireland is now below 4%. Everything we are doing, whether Intreo services or JobPath services, is now being proven to be enormously successful in getting people into employment. The Deputy is right to say that community employment, CE, schemes and others are having difficulty filling posts.

They are having difficulty because the number of schemes and services has almost quadrupled, while the number of people unemployed has reduced by half. I will deal with that by broadening the pool of people who can qualify for CE and Tús schemes. I will be making an announcement on that in the coming weeks.