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:

Of the 280,000 odd, 235,000 have completed their 12 months with JobPath. Some 64,000 of those progressed into work while on the scheme. We have retention in employment for different periods. At the moment, the measure for people retaining employment to 12 months is 22,000 but many of the people who got jobs have not got to the point where they could have retained them for 12 months.