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:
We have to be frank about some of this conversation. What I would say to those people is that community employment has always been an option for them. We have approximately 1,400 vacancies in CE schemes. When referred to JobPath, a small number of people suddenly discover an interest in community employment that they did not have before.