Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
It is. In our report to the committee, we also gave information on our own performance statistics, such as on sustainment. At that time, we had only had 26-week job sustainments. The information showed that we were outperforming people who were not on JobPath by approximately 22% or 23%.
JobPath is delivering significantly higher job outcomes than is the case for people not referred to the scheme. Those who engage with JobPath are sustaining their employment. As I said, the preliminary outputs from the econometric review, which is independent and is carried out by the OECD and Deloitte, indicate that earnings, employment, job progression and job sustainment are significantly higher among people referred to JobPath compared with identical or close to identical people who are not referred to it. I am quite satisfied that these figures will compare more than favourably with our Intreo service and local employment services.