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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: I want to raise one or two specific issues. There is reference in the opening statement to the Pathways to Work scheme in the period from 2016 to 2020. The targets relate primarily to rates of employment progression. There is a specific reference to moving 20,000 long-term unemployed persons to employment during 2016. The target of 20,000 was set prior to 2015 during development of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: Is that the original or revised target based on the review carried out by the Labour Market Council which stated the targets needed to be more ambitious?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: It is the original target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: To clarify, the original target was 20,000 in 2016 and 50,000 during the period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: The Labour Market Council reviewed the plan and stated it was not ambitious enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: It made no reference to that target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: To what specific targets did it refer which it stated needed to be more ambitious?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: It might be helpful if Mr. McKeon were to circulate the revised targets based on the Labour Market Council's review.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: That would enable us to monitor the outcomes as we go forward in the context of the Department's aims, rather than the original-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: I take that point. The Minister announced this week that the JobBridge internship programme is to be brought to a conclusion after running for approximately five years. From the Department's point of view, what was the level and nature of the complaints, if any, that were received about the scheme? I would be particularly interested to hear about complaints regarding exploitation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: Mr. Carroll has told us how many companies or organisations were taken out of the scheme. Can he tell us whether the level of complaints made was significant? Obviously, those investigations occurred because somebody made a complaint.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: Some complaints were found to be upheld and others were not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: If there were 200 complaints from the 48,000 participants, that sounds like a very low figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: Would Mr. Carroll say the most recent Indecon report underpinned or was largely supportive of the outcomes of JobBridge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: I am asking about JobBridge because I was somewhat taken aback in one respect. The Minister said "the Department will now hold a consultation process on the principles proposed by the Labour Market Council, that a new programme should" be developed. I was surprised that one programme was stopped before the next programme was developed. This seemed to happen very suddenly. I am not saying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: I do not. I suggest an unemployed person who believes an internship would benefit him or her in finding a job, regardless of whether this would be under the old scheme or a new scheme, would find it peculiar to be asked to wait for six months or 12 months because one scheme has been brought to an end and the new scheme has not yet been put in place. If the JobBridge model is seen to have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: Will the new scheme be operational at that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: The point I am making is that after this week, there will be nowhere for a new entrant who is interested in an internship to go until the new scheme is implemented sometime next year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: I take that point. I was asking why, given that internships have proven to be successful, there will be a timeout period when nobody can get an internship while the scheme is being modified and changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)
John Curran: I will take a couple of final questions from Deputy Mitchell and Senator Higgins.