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Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: ...1998. It has secured the esteem and goodwill of the wider community. More important, by any matrix or standard, it has proven to be effective when compared to operations such as JobBridge and JobPath, about which you hear terms like "disconnected" and "out of touch" used. You never hear such terms in respect of the Monaghan local employment service because it works. It is a good...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: ...€960 over an eight-week period rather than the original four-week period for those people who are in particularly vulnerable sectors, such as the music and events industry. I support Deputy Kerrane's assertions on the JobPath scheme. It is an absolute scandal. We had this before the Committee of Public Accounts recently. We heard that €11,000 per job was the net output...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: ...been incredibly helpful even though they have been working under very stressful conditions. I reiterate our thanks and commendation on that. I am trying to get a sense of the value for money of JobPath. What has the total net cost of JobPath been since the launch of the programme in 2015.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: How many people who have come through JobPath are employed via the JobPath route today?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: I can understand it might not be there. The Department has extended the JobPath for another year. On the basis of the figures Mr. McKeon has given me, assuming that the bulk of those 22,000 are still in employment, it works out a cost of €11,000 per job. Is there any possibility that another route would ensure we could create a greater number of jobs for less than €11,000...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: Whatever about Mr. McKeon's understanding of JobPath, the Government propaganda was certainly that this scheme was a job-creation scheme. It was to take people from social welfare payments to job activation. Based on the figures we have been given, €244 million has been spent on the scheme and 22,000 people have been in employment for more than 12 months. That works out at...