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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: I thank Mr. Conlon. Before I go to the committee members I will briefly raise two matters. First, Ms Murphy in her conclusion talked about the current position regarding the directive. I ask her to give a very brief overview to the committee of this process and the timelines surrounding the directive. I wish to address Mr. Conlon on the second matter and then I will open the discussion...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: As I said, I do not want to have the meeting bogged down in the matter, but Mr. Conlon made those points and we would like to see the numbers to support them. I do not want to hold the meeting up. Does Ms Murphy wish to comment on the timeline surrounding the directive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: I understand quite well that it might be difficult to have such figures at a meeting, but the members would like to be able to scrutinise those referrals because certainly the anecdotal evidence from the LES is that there has been a significant reduction in referrals to it. Mr. Conlon stated specifically on two occasions that JobPath was not negatively impacting the LES. The committee would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: Mr. Conlon can send us a note on that, for which I thank him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: The Senator's time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: I thank the Senator. Before I bring Mr. Conlon back in, I will allow a brief supplementary question from Deputy O'Dea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: There are a significant number of questions so I hope Mr. Conlon got them all. One question he might answer very directly was that raised by Senator Higgins on a technical issue. We know the JobPath companies get paid on a phased basis. The questions was whether the signing of a personal progression plan triggers a payment at that point. Mr. Conlon might address that directly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: If there is anything of a technical nature Mr. Conlon does not have here, he is more than welcome to submit that by means of correspondence. We would prefer to have it factually correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: If Mr. Conlon cannot answer that directly, he might get the details of it and respond in writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: Excuse me. There are a significant number of questions. I want to give Mr. Conlon that opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: On the particular case of Mr. X, can Deputy Smith blank out the names and can we have it as an example in order to have a written reply from the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: No, we can do it afterwards. Is the Deputy prepared to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: I would like Mr. Conlon to look at that case as an example, without the name of the individual, and he might address that issue for the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: Is it the person's signature that triggers the payment for the JobPath company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: Let us not get bogged down. I think it is fair to say that it would be extremely unusual for a payment to be made without a signed personal progression plan. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: There are many more issues to be dealt with. In that context, members should allow Mr. Conlon to proceed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: We do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: I thank Mr. Conlon for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: One second, please, Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
John Curran: I will allow Deputy Brady to comment on the same issue briefly. I thank Senator Higgins.