Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed)

10:30 am

Mr. Michael Bowe:

I do not think it is a maybe but an absolute fact. However, it is hard to capture. I am sure we all know families or friends who have experienced it. People do not shout from the rafters and say what the knock-on effect on their family has been. They do not want to talk about these things, but they are real. There may be small or big gains. One thing we see quite clearly under the back-to-work enterprise scheme is the change in a family's status when an individual is actually having a go. It might be in a small, one-person business - it does not matter - but the change is obvious. It would be lovely to see it being quantified in a particular way.

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