Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed)

12:15 pm

Mr. Jim Lynch:

If we get a referral back from Turas Nua and the referral is in connection with mental health or an issue like, then we facilitate a disability allowance payment or a disability allowance application and see that it goes through the process. We also look at whether we can provide short-term supports from an income support point of view with supplementary welfare allowance. It would not be right to say they are referred back to us and we automatically rubber stamp it because as the Secretary General said we have to apply the rule of just cause as to whether a person has a real reason for not engaging with Turas Nua. If the person does not want to engage by virtue of mental health issues, then we take that into account and we would give them the correct payment. It would not necessarily be the case that we would make them re-engage or take a penalty rate approach to that case.

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