Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection

10:00 am

Mr. John McKeon:

On the report on under-26s, we provided the National University of Ireland, Maynooth with access to our full jobseekers longitudinal database which records all the activity we have with jobseekers of various ages and whether they go back to work. The university is analysing those data and we expect to have the results by the end of the year. It is probably a bigger job than people anticipated it would be because there are millions of records in the database. It takes a long time. NUI Maynooth is doing it on a pro bonobasis for which we are very grateful. It is doing it from a research interest point of view which should be good from the point of view of its independence. It is professional researchers doing it primarily as a research project for their own purposes but it also something that will meet our requirements.

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