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
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The purpose of JobPath is to prepare people who are out of work to go back into the workforce. This mainly applies to groups 1 to 4, maybe not so much group 5. I am trying to get an understanding of what JobPath actually does then. Irrespective of whether it is real, there is a perception and we have seen evidence that they help a person with a CV and how to prepare for an interview. However, do they do what Mr. McKeon said about trying to get people back into that work routine and teaching them life skills?
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