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:

Absolutely. What we consider is not so much the percentage of unemployment but the number of people in our caseload. It is what people used to call the live register, although the Central Statistics Office has moved a little away from that. It still produces the figure but it now focuses on a monthly unemployment figure. Our live register has 188,000 people on it currently, with another approximately 70,000 on various programmes, leaving a total of approximately 250,000. We will see where we are. These contracts are due for renewal at the end of next year, if they are renewed. We will have a look over the next year. We will serve our client base with our own resources first, the local employment service second and then contract the capacity on top of that if required. We will consider that.

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