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

Photo of John CurranJohn Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have been fair to everyone in the allocation of time. Deputy John Brady has been waiting to ask a supplementary question. There will be a couple of minutes left and if the Senator has a short supplementary question, she will have an opportunity to ask it.

I want to ask Mr. McKeon some general questions about the gathering of information on the benefits and effects of the JobPath programme without going back over ground which has been covered. He does not have to supply the information now, but he might tell us what information is available on the jobs secured. Is information available on rates of pay and so on? Deputy Bríd Smith made an interesting point and it would be useful for the committee to know what information the Department has available. In his opening statement Mr. McKeon said, interestingly, that the figures were presented in such a manner because there were two contracts, that reverse engineering was not possible and that each could not work out the contract of the other. I understand that, but Mr. McKeon might provide for the committee, in summary format, the information available on the number of people who have been progressed through the programme, the number who have signed on, the number who have been in employment for three or six months and the number who have dropped out, relative to the various others cohorts. I presume some of the information will be restricted because of the reverse engineering issue, but it would be useful for the committee to have an overview of the best and up-to-date figures available.

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