Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is an unreasonable request in anybody's book given his poor language skills. Is the Department at all concerned that the companies involved, particularly Seetec, which runs the JobPath scheme, may head down the road shown in the film "I, Daniel Blake"? In Britain, 1 million people on disability allowance have been brought into the scheme's remit and the Department of Health and Social Care has already proved that over 110,000 of them cannot work. Is the Department concerned that people in direct provision will be brought into JobPath purely because they cannot get out of the direct provision centres and get work? Does it have any concerns about the direction this has taken? Staff in the British system say that homeless people have come before them and that they must penalise them because they do not show up for interviews or to sign documents due to their chaotic lives. However, those people are starving. The staff say they get brownie points for cruelty. Is the Department concerned that the latter might happen here?