Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection
10:30 am
Ms Simonetta Ryan:
Mr. Egan will continue, but I would like Ms Ward to have an opportunity to talk about the activation we are doing on the ground. I will give the reason for that. The Treoir report, Watch Them Grow, indicates the labour market readiness of one parent family recipients. That is a direct policy issue for us, and it is an operational issue. Some 30% of those lone parents who are not working have never worked. That is the reason the work with those who are far from the labour market is so important. I would like Ms Ward to have a chance to talk about that.
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