Results 1-20 of 31 for jobpath speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... We need to see that being reduced as well as looking at conflicts of interest and other issues. Another major problem I have with contracting out is the lack of transparency. I refer to the JobPath contract. It has been impossible for us to get details of that contract. We spend €202 million on services for employment when one adds in local employment services and all the...

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (26 Jun 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... For people who may find themselves pushed out of work by the Brexit downturn we need investment in active labour market schemes to provide support and retraining, if necessary. In that regard, we do not need schemes like JobPath on which €185 million that has been wasted. We need capital investment that will unlock the opportunities presented by the low carbon transitions. All...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...essential services. There are few services more essential than broadband, which has an impact on healthcare delivery in respect of X-rays and so on, job opportunities and many other issues. We saw with JobPath what can happen when we hand the delivery of services over to the private sector. We keep querying the €159 million cost associated with that but have not been able to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...took it on as being the way forward. Even the European Anti-Poverty Network at the time critically analysed it in terms of what would happen. Since then we have seen €149 million being spent on JobPath. I have a few questions for the witnesses. Have any of them seen the contract between the Department and the private companies that have - we have to name this - displaced many...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...must stop somewhere. This matter is evidence of another failing on the part of the Minister for Health. Finally, regarding the news that only 11,334 persons out of the 206,000 who have been taken on by JobPath remained in employment for over 12 months, the two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, received full payment for every one of these referrals. In fact, they received double payments....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...carried out before the contract was awarded. Again, there was blind loyalty to KPMG and its ruling on Carillion. My colleague, Deputy Brady, raised again yesterday an issue we have been raising for two years concerning the JobPath scheme, namely, the payment of €149 million of taxpayers' money with very little return to private companies to provide a service already provided by...

Seanad: Community and Rural Support Schemes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...not exist in towns and villages were it not for CE schemes. The first thing supervisors will say when it comes to the lack of referrals is that it is the Department's preference to refer people to JobPath over CE schemes. Some €140 million has gone to JobPath. I ask the Minister of State to look at the contracts and the mistakes that were made in JobPath. I ask him to look at...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...had it all before. This is like Fianna Fáil's personnel, payroll and related systems, PPARS, but much worse. Other projects such as the national broadband plan, the Carillion debacle and the JobPath debacle have seen millions wasted by vested interests and because the proper procurement procedures are not in place. It is time for the Minister to say exactly what he will do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...using the procurement model that has led us to so many failures. These failures include the situation we faced with Carillion, which the committee examined; the national broadband plan; and JobPath, which will be discussed in the Dáil later this evening and in respect of which we have spent approximately €100 million on engaging private companies. We never saw the contracts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will finish with that. I do not think that the capacity to deliver the projects, or the will to deliver them with real value for money, is there. I refer to JobPath. The Minister may have been involved in that, or perhaps the Taoiseach was. The Taoiseach was the Minister in charge at the time. I raised JobPath and the waste of money involved in it with him before he was Taoiseach. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...of the Oireachtas tells us a lot about its attitude to the community employment scheme. The Department has lost sight of the community employment scheme's original purpose and wants to hive it off to JobPath and Tús and not have it on the books any longer. This pensions issue is directly related to that agenda. I know of many schemes where the workers have given long years of...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...be available to the public and will they be subject to freedom of information requests? Earlier this year in the finance committee I raised Brexit and the fact that some State services such as JobPath were tendered to companies based in a jurisdiction that might be out of the EU in the future. Can the Minister of State give any guarantees that all companies, domestic, EU and foreign,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How much has the Department paid to each of these companies since JobPath was set up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am very conscious of the time. I just want a short explanation of how somebody can be told to pass a local employment scheme office to travel 30 miles to go to JobPath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...concerned with the level of privatisation within the public service and what that implies for the amount of personal information foreign private companies will have on people. I am thinking about JobPath, Intreo and other services which are tendered to private foreign companies. How will we control that and is the Minister concerned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It would but if we are looking at Brexit and then at something like JobPath, the companies to which the service has been tendered out will be outside the EU once Brexit takes place. That worries me greatly.

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move:That Seanad Éireann recognises: - the significant involvement of private, profit making companies in the operation of JobPath where tax payers’ money is used; - that the method and manner in which candidates are chosen for inclusion on JobPath very often includes people who are not long-term unemployed; - that the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The people who are watching this debate are people who are affected by JobPath, people who are owned by a private company, people who are told they cannot go on a CE scheme, people who are ordered to do things, people who cannot read or write but are given leaflets by the JobPath providers, people who are experiencing domestic violence and people with mental health difficulties. The type of...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...in the House 12 months ago and at the time we put all those issues to the then Minister, Deputy Varadkar, who is now the Taoiseach. He gave his responses and we told him what had to be done with JobPath, what had to be done to protect our most vulnerable citizens and what had to be done to give people genuine supports and pathways into employment. It made no difference. We told him the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know my colleagues on the right will welcome the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, coming into the House to tease out some of the issues around JobPath and to evaluate whether the €350 million being spent on it and the €17 million that was spent on it last year is justified. I look forward to that debate and I hope it happens sooner rather than later. A word that I know this...