Fine Gael has held meetings at the OECD in Paris to discuss the party's plans to reform the operations of the State training agency Fás and the Department of Social Affairs, writes Marie O'Halloran.
Leader Enda Kenny said the party had two days of “intensive engagement with the OECD involving nine separate meetings with a range of experts”.
Plans were discussed for a new deal for the unemployed, which would “radically reform Fás and integrate training services and benefit entitlements for jobless workers”. Mr Kenny and the party’s main economic spokesmen Richard Bruton, Leo Varadkar and Kieran O’Donnell, and the party’s communications, energy and natural resources spokesman Simon Coveney attended.