Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Select Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary)
1:00 pm
Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
It got less than anticipated. Our spend with An Post went up this year, so I hope that will be reflected in next year's figures.
The figure for the medical certificates is €22,250,000. The figure for JobPath was estimated at €48,800,000, and the Revised Supplementary Estimate is €71,698,000, which is the increase of €22,895,000. Therein lies the increase in that one. We probably did not anticipate JobPath being as successful as it has been in the past year. If the Chairman looks at our job figures, which were only released by the CSO this morning, he will see they are down significantly year on year than we would have anticipated. That is reflected in the number of people who are getting work using our JobPath programme.
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