Pathways to Work scheme aims to have 2.5 million employed by 2024

An ambitious new programme to get 75,000 people back to work in just two years has been unveiled by government

Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys and the Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the Louth Meath Education Training Board in Dundalk today. Photo: Maxwells

New welfare reforms, including a pay-related jobseekers payment, will be agreed by 2022.

Heather Humphreys, the Minister for Social Protection, says the government has been "drawing on the experience of the pandemic", and is developing proposals for a basic income guarantee and a Jobseekers payment based on pay.