Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection

1:00 pm

Mr. Mick Creedon:

Not every individual would need it either. Within the labour market there tends to be a relationship between housing policy, where we house people and labour market outcomes and chances. We end up with concentrations of unemployment, disadvantage and poverty within areas. There is certainly a strong argument to the effect that the type of intervention we need in those areas is different from the type of intervention we would need elsewhere. The pilot proved that. It was operated within a very disadvantaged area where there were significant concentrations of unemployment and disadvantage as well as various combinations of barriers to the labour market. It is not a question of rolling out that intensive support everywhere.