Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion

1:00 pm

Mr. John McKeon:

It has to be kept up. Our experience in the Department in terms of inviting people and getting them to engage with us at one-to-one meetings is that text messages are the most powerful tool. Our experience is that a text to their phone will generate a response more than a letter, for example, and even more than a phone call or e-mail.