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Working with people who are on benefits means they require support in order to get into work. The jobs that they get into tend to be for the minimum wage or for wages that are not much beyond the minimum.
We need to ensure that a bill on the matter that is placed before Parliament is 100 per cent right; it would be too important not to get right, and we would need to get it right first time.
The good thing is that in discussions with EIS we all agreed on where we want to get to. I do not think that anyone will be bothered if it takes six months longer to get to that place, if we get there properly.