Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Eligibility for Employment Activation Measures: Discussion
11:30 am
Dr. Mary Murphy:
Given that many of the jobless households are not families that are on the live register, the activation strategy does not stretch to them. Regarding learning the lessons of the past, jobless households can become very structurally embedded in joblessness and the employment growth generated will not necessarily move into those households unless very particular activation strategies are targeted at them, which is not happening now. It is not the fundamental role of activation policy to target them.
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