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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: So failure to sign a personal progression plan is not a grounds to withdraw payment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Does the signing of the personal progression plan trigger the payment from the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: If people are choosing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The crucial issue is that if JobPath is part of the activation infrastructure that we provide, it needs to be that rather than a punishment. If someone-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a year of someone's life. If people are choosing an active route to activation, be it back to education, Tús or CE, surely it is extraordinarily inappropriate to say that it has been decided that they will instead spend a year in purgatory and JobPath. I would like back to education, which is related, to be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It should not be. I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Just because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No, a statement was made and I want to be clear. I am not opposing people being assisted in this respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Rather, I am asking about mobility between schemes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Conlon can send the information to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am conscious that we are very short of time. These are questions I have already asked. When personal progression plans were discussed I had two specific questions. First, are people allowed to take the contract away, consider it and seek advice before they sign it? If so, are they advised of that? Second, can people decline to share information about their cohabitees or refuse...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Do they agree to give personal details in the contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That should not be prior to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a key point. Are they allowed to take the plan away and suggest amendments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Can someone physically take it away before they sign it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me, this is very specific. Will the Department advise Seetec and Turas Nua that people should be allowed to take their contracts away?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I think I see a solution to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What about providing an exit route from JobPath into another suitable scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, but Ms Murphy did not get much of an opportunity to answer some of the questions.