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:

We have answered one of the questions that Deputy Ryan asked. Mr. Egan has answered his question to a large extent. Such people have access to all of the training and education programmes but they do not get the training allowance. People with credits, in addition, would have access to some of the employment programmes. It depends on whether a person has credits. There are people who would have access to some of the employment programmes but not all of them. They might not have access to the schemes that are particularly targeted at the long-term unemployed, such as Tús and MOMENTUM, but they would have access to the other schemes.