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 only people who can change what the JobPath providers, local employment services or community services do are the Department and the Government. The instance given in "I, Daniel Blake" and the examples the Deputy quoted are examples where the staff of the Department of Work and Pensions and of the Jobcentre Plus engaged with the jobseekers and the people with disabilities. It was not the contractors but the Department's staff. We do not refer anybody with disabilities to JobPath or local employment services. We have a separate regime called the EmployAbility companies and we deal with them.
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