Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed)

12:15 pm

Mr. John McKeon:

The main reason for that is that in 2011 we were not engaging with people at the rate we should have been through the Intreo service, JobPath or the local employment services. As I said earlier, every case officer had caseloads of more than 1,000 jobseekers. Now we have caseloads of 120 to 201 on average. It is about 200 on average across all services. We are now engaging with people more intensely. That more active engagement-----

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