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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...and educate our staff. This is for many reasons. Obviously, we want staff to do more and do things better. We also want to give them opportunities for promotion and that has a cost to it. The JobPath contract falls into this subheading as well. As the Deputy will be aware, the main cost of this is when people get jobs that pay more than 30 hours per week and they sustain it for more...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...two things I would like to restore in 2018. I got a lot in the previous budget and, hopefully, I will have enough influence to get a lot in the next budget as well. I will be as clear as possible about JobPath. The allocation to JobPath in 2017 was €65 million. That roughly works out as an average cost per participant of €1,000. When we consider the number of people...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: On JobPath, Table 9.5 on page 47 gives a breakdown of funding for the major outsourcing. These include payments to medical certifiers, such as doctors, of €21.75 million, nurse attendance €270,000, payments to branch managers of €16 million, because many of the branch offices are outsourced, and a payment of €37 million to JobPath. The figure is there as much as...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The next quarterly report will be out either at the end of this month or in early June. There is a lag because the way that JobPath works, as the Deputy knows, is that one is enrolled in JobPath and in it for a year, so it is not possible to get results until the year is complete.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...rate at which short-term unemployed people become long-term unemployed, an increase in the exit rate for people on the live register for two years or more, long-term unemployed people referred to JobPath and the reduction in the overall ratio between youth unemployment and overall unemployment. That shows the outturn for 2016 and also the performance indicators for 2017, which are...