Results 781-800 of 5,754 for speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not believe JobBridge was designed for this type of work. It was designed to assist people to get experience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Organisations have had to withdraw jobs advertised on JobBridge because the Department stated they were not JobBridge jobs. Is this correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: Do not tell me you want apprentice doctors working on JobBridge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: The Chairman is taking up my point wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I am not having a row over it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: With all due respect, part of my role here is to point out some of what I see that is wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: We need to dig down into the 43% who had some difficulty with their experience and find out where it is going wrong. I actually believe the Department does a fantastic job in supporting people, but I can go to the principal of a local national or secondary school who sees a chance to fill a hole in the staff by using JobBridge. Unfortunately, the fact some organisations had to withdraw the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I will interrupt Mr. Corcoran very briefly. I thank him for his contribution. He has a fairly good idea of where I am coming from on this issue. The big thing that causes me a problem with the back to education allowance, which runs across the PLC and further education sector - guidance counsellors in Ballymun will be aware of this issue - is that some of the courses young people are doing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I apologise to Senator O'Donnell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I can see the reason for taking a place for training purposes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I never said that the Department should not allow it but, to return to Mr. Power's point, there should be specific targets that the person must meet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not want to interrupt Mr. Carroll, but Mr. Power's point, which he put much better than I ever could have, was that the job must offer something new to the person. He or she must pick up a skill and there must be specific learning outcomes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: If I am a trained teacher, I am a trained teacher, and that is it. Someone cannot bring me in on JobBridge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: That is a race to the bottom. There must be specific learning outcomes. I must pick up a skill from the school.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I could argue this point all day but I thank Mr. Carroll for his answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do have some concerns and I will be looking into the SLO side of this on which I might come back to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: I do not want to get into the Seanad by-election name-calling but there are serious e-mails being sent to me and other Members of this House in recent days, and I think somebody somewhere needs to deal with them fairly quickly. I rise today with respect to the Order of Business of 22 October, where Senator John Crown asked the acting leader of the day, Deputy Paul Coghlan, to amend the Order...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: The Leader should not blame the teachers.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)
Gerard Craughwell: It pains me to raise the issue to which I propose to refer given the excellent news adverted to by Senator Colm Burke in the context of the up to 1,000 new jobs to be created in Cork, which heralds a great success for the Government. However, I rise to speak about the practice that led to the closure of Clerys department store in O'Connell Street. My colleague, Senator Norris, addressed...