Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Dáil made a decision to end referrals to JobPath earlier this year. I am not questioning the competency of the people providing the service but it has failed, of that there is no question. Some €150 million has been spent on this scheme and we have, as Deputy Brady said, a 6% success rate for people holding down a job after one year. If we compare it to the community employment CE schemes, the participants taking part in them get satisfaction from what they do. The people in the communities are very happy with the work they are doing. Recently, CE scheme supervisors were told the number of participants on their projects at week eight will automatically become their approved number for those 52 weeks.

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