Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I want to return to the JobPath scheme. I will try to be short in my questions as I have limited time, so I would like some short answers. JobPath is an outsourced scheme and it is performance based. A lot of the feedback I have got, and I have talked to Mr. McKeon about this before, is that people were directed towards the likes of the hospitality and security sectors and they were supervised to search sites they could search at home. I personally had issues in terms of both employers and employees who told me they could source the jobs themselves but that the companies got paid. There are issues with this. What is the status of the current contract? Given that there are sectors that will be slow to recover that have been traditional sectors that JobPath has directed people towards, what changes will be implemented in how the Department will proceed?