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:

Yes; the Labour Market Council did not suggest changing it. The target is to move 50,000 people who were long-term unemployed on 1 January 2016 into employment by the end of the programme. It is considered to be an ambitious target because as the number diminishes it will get harder and harder for people who were unemployed on 1 January this year to get into employment next year.

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