Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The evidence that exists, which is there in the first quarterly report on the Department of Social Protection website, and there will be another quarterly report out in the next couple of weeks, shows very high levels of customer satisfaction. It also shows that people who have been referred to Seetec and Turas Nua are more likely to be in employment and to gain employment than a similar profile of people who were not referred. This is especially true of people who are longer-term unemployed. These are only initial results and I would not be writing about them in the OECD Journal just yet. We are going to need to see this develop over another year before we can be certain that these results are as good as they appear. An independent econometric analysis will be done also to see what sort of results and outcomes we are getting.

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