Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection

10:30 am

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I believe it is important to note that a job is not offered to everyone. The onus is put on the vast majority of people, and in some cases they are being told to get ten to 15 interviews every week. If they are not coming back having hit those targets, the threat is hanging over their heads that it will be referred back to the Department and their payments will be stopped. It is incorrect to say a job is offered to people. The onus is put back on many people to find a job themselves.

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