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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I ask Mr. Donnery to do so, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Mr. McKeon described full-time employment as 30 hours per week. Has the Department calculated how much has been spent on creating each job created by each of these companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How much has the Department paid to each of these companies since JobPath was set up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: So we have spent €84 million to date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Right, and that is in addition to the tendering costs, whatever they are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When does the contract end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is there a penalty clause in the contract if the Department were to break the contract between now and then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I ask Mr. McKeon to come back with that information as well. There are many questions here to which we do not have the answers. Will Mr. McKeon clarify the number of referrals which the Department has agreed to give to each of these companies in any given year? Can I get clarification on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Was the €240,000 for each organisation or for both?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Over how many years was that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: A sum of €60,000 has been cited several times, that the Department have to submit €60,000 per year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand that now. What checks and audits are done in terms of verifying the numbers and how many unannounced site visits has the Department made to each of these companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Department do unannounced site visits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many did the Department do last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Are the witnesses aware that people in rural areas are being instructed to travel up to 30 miles each way to visit Seetec for example? People with no rural transport and no means of getting there are requested to travel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Maybe it could be quantified and measured; how much did Seetec pay out on travel last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am very conscious of the time. I just want a short explanation of how somebody can be told to pass a local employment scheme office to travel 30 miles to go to JobPath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What is the mileage rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Therein the problem lies. We get a lot of them. People are frightened because their benefits are taken from them if they do not comply with exactly what they are instructed to do. It was said that they get one warning or two warnings. When warnings are being given to really vulnerable people and they are frightened that they will not have a penny left and their payments will be cut, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know.