Job Creation
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-28
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

As the Deputy knows, JobPath is being wound down. No new referrals are being made but existing participants are being allowed to finish their engagements, which is fair enough. With regard to a review, we already did a comprehensive review in conjunction with the OECD back in 2019. As the Deputy well knows, we have been through the findings many times before. In short, the OECD found that people who engaged with JobPath had a better chance of getting a job and were also more likely to have higher earnings than those who did not engage with the service. My focus is now very much on the future. JobPath was of its time. It was there at a time when we had high levels of unemployment. Thankfully, we are not in that space any more. The Government can be accused of a lot of things but the one thing we cannot be accused of is not helping people into work. We have record levels of employment in the country. More than 2.57 million people are at work. More people are working than ever before.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-28