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Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Mr. John McKeon: JobPath providers do things slightly differently from how we do them. At its core, however, it is essentially the same process and JobPath is an extra resource capacity for the Department. It should be borne in mind that when the scheme was introduced, there were 455,000 people on the live register. Between the Department and local employment services, we had some 600...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Once somebody goes into the process of JobPath, whether under Turas Nua or Seetec Ireland, he or she is prevented from accessing other services. For example, the article to which I referred mentions a person who was deemed ineligible to do a Safe Pass course because he was in JobPath. We also have cases where older JobPath participants, of 60 years old or thereabouts, cannot avail of a...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

...the CE case. Approximately 180,000 people are either long-term unemployed, in a CE scheme or on a training programme for the long-term unemployed. At any point in time, some 60,000 people are on JobPath and some 20,000 are in a CE scheme. Doing the sums, there are roughly 40,000 long-term unemployed people who are not on JobPath, in a CE scheme or on a training programme. They are not...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

...he or she had not sought to be on a CE scheme the previous year. I am being serious. There is an issue to be discussed. Of the approximately 100,000 long-term unemployed people, 60,000 are on JobPath. This means that there are 40,000 people who are not on JobPath or in CE schemes. The purpose of community employment is to provide a service to long-term unemployed people that will give...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

David Cullinane: ...in their presentation of the accounts and answering of questions. That is worth noting because it is not always the case. I am happy to put it on the record. When I put my questions on JobPath, I understand that Mr. McKeon was not refusing to answer. I accept in good faith that he did not believe he was in a position to answer because of issues of commercial sensitivity. However, I...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...one of which I raised in the Dáil a few months ago. An individual was hounded to sign a form. He went off and got a job himself but was hounded, as was his new employer. He did not know how the JobPath company even managed to identify his new employer. He was hounded into signing a declaration to the effect that Seetec had secured the job for him. If that case were replicated,...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: What is the difference between that process and the support provided under the JobPath scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: How much money was spent on JobPath in the past year?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: These are supposed to be job activation measures, but the information I have suggests they are, in fact, job-blocking measures. I read an interesting article in recent days which outlined how JobPath is preventing people from getting jobs. That is something which resonates throughout the country.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Being locked into JobPath for 12 months is a major disincentive.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: I am comparing it with the JobPath process.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Seán Fleming: Before I call Deputy MacSharry, Mr. McKeon stated that people in JobPath companies had a chance of approximately 34%-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Mr. John McKeon: Yes. Let me clarify. It is an uplift of 34% on JobPath. That is 34% on top of approximately 14%, so it is more than 40%. That is into paid employment. The community employment data-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

David Cullinane: How much did JobPath cost from July 2015 to September 2017?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Mr. John McKeon: We make a payment if someone who is with JobPath secures employment that lasts for at least 13 weeks.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. The JobPath scheme replaced JobBridge.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Mr. John McKeon: No, they are completely different. JobPath is a service that we contract out for the provision of employment advice. JobBridge was an internship scheme. They were actually running at the same time.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The contract for JobPath went to competitive tender.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

David Cullinane: ...a mistake and learning from the process. It is important as we do not get enough of this from Accounting Officers. That is the right approach. Which of Mr. McKeon's colleagues is responsible for JobPath?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

...some of this conversation. What I would say to those people is that community employment has always been an option for them. We have approximately 1,400 vacancies in CE schemes. When referred to JobPath, a small number of people suddenly discover an interest in community employment that they did not have before.