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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)

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)

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)

...the Deputy. First, we have a number of checks around people getting into employment. As well as our own checks in terms of commencement of employment notices from Revenue and so on, we ask the JobPath providers to get a signed note from the employer. It is a belt and braces check and I suspect that is where the first issue is arising. On the part-time employment aspect, under the...

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: If the Deputy gets their names she could tell them she will give them to me personally. I will assure them they will not be victimised. Leaving aside JobPath providers, even our own staff hear stories but often those stories are anonymous. As a manager one must get the detail if one is going to make a change. I will personally assure those people they will not be victimised.

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: ...is value for money and whether it is progression. Essentially, my understanding of what happens in this process is that the companies are given the detail of an individual who they must sign up to JobPath. The information is passed on from the Department.

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, it is not a contract but what we call a personal progression plan. People are asked to do that whether they are working with an Intreo case officer from our Department, a JobPath case officer or a local employment services case officer. In every case we expect the jobseeker to sign up to a personal progression plan.

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: ...applied in each of the years from 2012 to 2016. It has been growing. In 2012, when a much larger number of people were getting a welfare payment, it was 1,500 and in 2016 it was 10,000. Does JobPath play a role in that? In the first number of weeks there is a 44% reduction-----

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: It can be local employment services, a community employment scheme, the Department or JobPath. We get a report that somebody is not co-operating in the activation process. For natural justice reasons we have a minimum of two steps before we implement a penalty. We will write to the person and call the person in. Then we will call him or her in again and say, "We have...

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 Connolly: ...and that of my office is not that we get our own way but that we are treated with politeness, speed and professionalism, and I thank Mr. McKeon for that. I wish to say as much publicly. JobPath has been done to death here today, and rightly so. Mr. McKeon referenced "I, Daniel Blake". Certainly, I think we are in danger of following the path that has been so poignantly shown in that...

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)

...schemes throughout the country. In 2012, which was the height of the recession, we had 21,000 on such schemes. Almost 1,000 more people are on community employment schemes now than in 2012. JobPath has been introduced since then. When one looks at it at an aggregate level, there is no apparent impact.

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: I want to clarify that. If a person is selected for referral to JobPath provider, just as if they are selected for Tús, they are required to participate. There is an exception made where a person has got a community employment offer during the same period. They can then choose between the two. However, somebody who has not received an offer is required to attend.

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...