Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of ending the JobPath contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40033/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Referrals to the JobPath companies end under contact on 31st December 2019. The JobPath contract does contain a provision for early termination. It requires my Department to serve six months written notice on the contractor. The information in relation to payments, if any, associated with termination of the contract, is both confidential and commercially sensitive and to publish same would place the State at a disadvantage both in terms of the contracts now in place and any future procurement that may be undertaken.

I trust this clarifies the matters for the Deputy.