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
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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These are supposed to be job activation measures, but the information I have suggests they are, in fact, job-blocking measures. I read an interesting article in recent days which outlined how JobPath is preventing people from getting jobs. That is something which resonates throughout the country.