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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: ...the end of local employment services and job clubs, are there any plans for any contracted services or tenders for any other schemes for this year or any planned changes? Regarding the end of JobPath, aside from the approximately 20,000 people who went on it at the start of 2022 and remain on it, are there plans to review that scheme, its benefits and how it has worked? From the figures...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Regarding public employment services, the contracts for JobPath provided for a two-phase approach that entailed client referrals for a number of years followed immediately by a run-off period of two years to facilitate existing clients to complete their engagement with the service. The extension provision in JobPath contracts was agreed and activated in August 2019 with the result that phase...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Will there be a review of JobPath because €322 million has been spent on it? If we take the figures just given by the Minister, 32,000 people are still active on it. That means that 318,488 people completed the programme and of that figure, 29,000 have a job that lasted a year. Those 318,488 people have finished, of which 29,000 have a job, so you are looking at a success rate of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...at the minute to do that. I am more focused on making sure the new system beds in well. The bottom line is that the people who need this support get it when they need it. The total number of JobPath engagements to date is over 351,000, giving a total cost per client engagement of €925 and delivering 12 months of engagement with employment services. Our view is that this provides...