Austin Deasy
Ceist:175 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for Labour if he will give details of (1) the number of participants in the FAS self employment scheme for each year in the past five years and (2) the number of participants who have remained in business to date; if he will re-examine the restrictions of the necessity to be long term unemployed and signing on for 13 weeks and the discontinuance of the payment after 40 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter.