Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons referred to JobPath since it was established; and the total number of referred twice, three times and four times in tabular form. [60947/22]

Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people who sourced employment while on JobPath and in tabular form, the total number of persons who sustained work for 13, 26, 39 and 52 weeks based on the number of persons who have completed JobPath to date that is, no longer engaged on JobPath in tabular form. [60948/22]

Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of JobPath since it was established. [60949/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 379 to 381, inclusive, together.

As the Deputy will be aware JobPath was contracted to provide employment assistance and advice to jobseekers. While not a job placement service it has a proven track record of providing sustained employment. Since 2015, over 350,000 Jobseekers had engaged with the JobPath service of whom some 303,000 had either completed or were expected to complete the service. Referrals to JobPath ceased at the end of June 2022.

Over 38,000 persons began engagement with the service in 2021 and over 20,000 since the start of 2022. Most of these persons are still engaged with the service and will in their time also take up employment and therefore add to the employment figures. 

84,801 have thus far commenced employment during their engagement period with JobPath. Over 29,000 Jobseekers have so far reached the 12-month Job Sustainment milestone.

This information is set out in Table 1 below.

To date 142,059 clients have completed one full engagement with JobPath, 51,476 clients have completed two full engagements with the JobPath service, 6,175 people have completed a third engagement period and 61 have completed four full engagements.

This information has been summarised below in Table 2.

In December 2020 I instructed my officials to ensure that no client who had completed two, full 52-week engagements with JobPath would be referred to that service a third time. 

JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies.  The companies are paid on the basis of performance and with the exception of the initial registration fee; payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment.

The overall cost of JobPath will be determined by the number of people who participate in the programme and the number who get sustainable jobs.

The roll out of JobPath began in 2015 and the total expenditure since the service began is €322.3m

Please note this is gross expenditure and does not take into account the savings made in welfare payments for those who secured sustained employment. 

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy. 

Table 1. Engagements and Performance.

Table 2. JobPath clients with Multiple completed engagements.