Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
No, they had no input. We set the input in our tender document. The contract was designed after a long and detailed consultation process. There was input from the National and Economic Social Council, the Economic and Social Research Institute, the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion and labour market experts from Maynooth University. We did much study and research on similar models in other countries, and the conclusion was that if somebody is to be contracted to do something and be paid by outcomes, he or she must be paid something along the way or he or she will have no cashflow. That "something along the way" is paying him or her based on a 13-week job sustainment.
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