Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 April 2017
375. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department is given a detailed accounting by Seetec and Turas Nua, respectively, of the way the €25.2 million of public money given to those two companies in 2016 was spent. [18022/17]
View answerJobPath is a payment by results model. All initial set up costs and the ongoing running costs are borne by the companies.
The companies are paid registration fees and job sustainment fees.
A registration fee may be claimed only when a jobseeker has developed a personal progression plan. Job sustainment fees are payable for each 13-week period of sustained employment, up to a maximum of 52 weeks. The jobs must be full time, that is, more than 30 hours a week, with some exceptions. This means JobPath companies are incentivised financially to assist people to find full-time jobs that they are likely to hold down and are therefore suited to. My Department verifies each individual job sustainment fee claim before payment, confirming that the customer is in employment and no longer on the Live Register.
The monies referred to by the Deputy are solely in respect of fees claimed by the service providers for registration and job sustainment fees.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
