Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection
10:00 am
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have asked the Minister about discrimination towards young jobseekers many times, including in the Chamber just last week. She replied that any young unemployed person who engages in any kind of training or upskilling will get the full payment. Some of these people have Masters degrees, Minister, and we now expect them to engage in further upskilling. They do not need upskilling. They need proper, sustained employment, not to be sent over to JobPath or whatever. They need jobs and this discrimination needs to end.
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