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:

It is difficult to say. Around the world the evidence is that the first four weeks, in particular, of somebody starting in a job, particularly if they have been very long-term unemployed, is critical. Most of the people we have referred to JobPath have been three years or more unemployed on the day they start. It is very difficult for someone who has that long period of unemployment. It is simple things like getting up in the morning, being there at 9 o'clock and taking instructions from somebody when one has not been used to doing that for a long time. In making that adjustment evidence all around the world has shown the first four weeks are critical.

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