Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for the reply. The JobPath scheme has cost over €322 million of taxpayers’ money. Any time I hear a Government representative speaking about JobPath, they speak of it as a success. However, I cannot understand how 350,488 people were referred to JobPath, some twice, some three times and a very few a fourth time, and then that was stopped. Some 29,041 people have found work that has been sustained for one year, which is 8% of total referrals finding a job for one year. At the committee in February, the Minister said some 32,000 people remain on the scheme. That leaves 318,000, and as 29,000 have got a job, it means some 289,000 people were referred to a scheme that cost over €300 million of taxpayers’ money and got nothing at the end of it. In light of that and of the fact that this is taxpayers’ money going to private companies, will the scheme be reviewed once it finishes?

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