One in four finding job with Varadkar scheme

More than one in four long-term unemployed people who went through Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s flagship work scheme have since found work.

The latest performance report of the JobPath scheme shows that 28 per cent of those who have completed the 12-month scheme are now working as sales assistants, labourers, production managers, waiters, clerks and carpenters.

A total of 109,000 long-term unemployed people were referred to the programme, which used two private companies to ...