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:
They work and they work together even. We have job clubs, ourselves, which we contract out for our own Intreo service, that do similar work. They do workshops with people, they provide counselling to them and they provide support in employment.
This is a very difficult cohort to get to. As I said, while the fall-off on the charts is high, it is still considerably better than if they had not been on the JobPath programme.