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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

...it is really about. It is in the interests of jobseekers. At the moment, across the various job club and local employment services, we have approximately 66 different providers. We also have JobPath providers and our own service. It is a bit of a confused landscape for jobseekers. The advice we got clearly in all those reports was to try to bring it together and integrate it. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

...At a caseload for long-term unemployed, which is internationally recognised, of about 125:1, we probably need about 1,300 employment advisers. Between ourselves, the local employment services and JobPath at the moment we have about 1,000. There is more than enough work to go around. Under the Pathways to Work strategy, the Government has committed to extending the offer of employment...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

...can be done. I think the experience in the first phase in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim shows it can be done. We are taking the learnings on board. The Deputy mentioned JobBridge; I think she meant JobPath.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, JobPath, sorry.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Mr. John McKeon: I know we have had the conversation about JobPath before and we will probably never agree on this. My job is to be objective and to look at the data. I would have to say that our customer research, which is independent, gives very good results for JobPath. An interesting report was done by Michael McGann of Maynooth University of a street level bureaucrat view. I think...