Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Youth Guarantee: Discussion

2:50 pm

Mr. Terry Corcoran:

Fine, but I wish to answer the other question Senator Reilly asked about tracking and the situation in Finland. We are working on improving our data on tracking people after programmes and have been doing so for a while. It is not going to be perfect because people do not always tell us where they have gone when they leave the welfare system. Also, the flow of data on peoples' entry to employment is lagged in Ireland because we only get that information through P35 forms at the end of the year. However, we are working on that and hope not to have as bad an experience as Finland in that regard.