Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments
11:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
I agree. We have always been very conscious of this. That is why we commissioned the econometric review of JobPath, which I circulated to members earlier. That review, which was conducted under the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service and with the support of the OECD, showed that after two years - so it is a two-year period, not 12 months - employment outcomes for people who got the JobPath service were 37% better than for a control group of identical people who had not got the service.