John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

More than €202 million has been given to the private companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, to roll out what can only be described as the failed JobPath programme. To date, more than 232,000 citizens have been referred to JobPath, some of them for the fourth year in succession. I refer to "failed" JobPath because only 6%, or approximately 15,000, of those people have been sustained in employment for 12 months or more. The House was told that referrals were due to stop this year, but a decision was taken to continue referrals to the JobPath programme for another 12 months. What is the reason for that decision? Why has the Government decided to ignore the will of this Dáil, which voted in February 2019 to stop referrals immediately to the failed JobPath programme?

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