Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 14 December 2017
695. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of progress on the programme for Government commitment to implement the Pathways to Work five-year strategy which aims to help 50,000 long-term unemployed persons into jobs. [53661/17]
View answerThe target was to move 50,000 people, who were long-term unemployed at the beginning of 2016, into employment by the end of 2020.
The number of people who were long-term unemployed at the beginning of 2016 was approximately 144,000. By the end of September 2017, almost 42,000 of these people had moved into employment. The rate of exit to employment is therefore running some way ahead of the target level.
