Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund

9:00 am

Mr. John McKeon:

I do not have the exact figure with me but we do produce performance reports and publish them on our website. An important factor for us is that payments are made on the basis of outcomes. In other words, when a provider succeeds in getting a jobseeker into sustained employment, we will give a quarterly payment for up to a year. The performance data indicate that when a person who participates in JobPath is compared like for like with a person who is not on the scheme, the former has a 34% improved possibility of being in employment on a sustained basis.