Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Sinn Féin Deputies are doing a disservice to those 480 people who get up every day, go to work every day and do their best to help people across this country. The evidence from the OECD report clearly shows that individuals who were supported by JobPath were more likely to enter employment, remain in employment for longer and have higher earnings from employment. I encourage the Sinn Féin Deputies to speak to their party colleague in Northern Ireland, the Minister for Communities, Deirdre Hargey, MLA, who clearly recognised this when her Department recently awarded employment service contracts to one of the JobPath providers, Turas Nua. That is the same JobPath provider Sinn Féin is so critical of in this House. It is happy to give it contracts in Northern Ireland.

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