Results 1-11 of 11 for jobpath speaker:Mattie McGrath

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: JobPath leaves much to be desired. Turas Nua and Seetec are not private companies per se, but they are acting like private companies. This is the wrong formula. They get paid when someone is referred to them and when someone gets a position. I have dealt with some awful cases where mental distress has been caused by the abuse people received and the hardships they were forced through...

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...anymore. It is brushing these issues off and ignoring Opposition motions, even those that have the support of the majority in the House. We saw that with the motion calling for the abolition of the JobPath programme some weeks ago. It was the same with the motion on post offices. That was unanimously accepted, even by the Taoiseach. The Government will ignore that at its peril. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 19 February 2019, if evidence of the financial costs referred to with respect to severing the State's contract with organisations operating the JobPath programme will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9432/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her response to the recent decision by Dáil Éireann to approve a Private Members' motion calling for the abolition of the JobPath programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7974/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...of the House and the minority status of the Government, will the Minister respond to the Government's defeat in a vote on a motion tabled by Sinn Féin? The motion called for the abolition of the JobPath programme, which is administered through Turas Nua and Seetec. Will the Minister update the House on how she intends to recognise the will of the people, which was expressly...

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...farm relief service, which puts up fences, calves cows, lambs sheep and does great work, and Working Links. I was informed, however, that it was not intended to publish individual payments to the JobPath companies as these were "commercially sensitive" and to do so would place the State at a disadvantage in respect of contracts now in place and future recruitment that might be undertaken....

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

Mattie McGrath: ...Defence Agency project – military search capability building, referral to committee; and No. 1, Greyhound Racing Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 213, motion re JobPath, selected by Sinn Féin. Wednesday’s business shall be No. 35, statements on CervicalCheck; No. 11, European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019 - Order for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Our supervisor is doing a great job, but he is ringing social welfare offices and everybody else but cannot get them. There is a huge logjam. The spirit of what is supposed to be done by JobPath is fine, but it involves private companies. It is regressive. The forerunner of one of the companies had difficulties in England. My colleague, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, wanted to ask this...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...but get hammered every which way. I do not know how they survive, put their kids through college and pay for doctor visits and medicines. They must be looked after. I want to raise the issue of Turas Nua, a company appointed by Department of Social Protection to deliver JobPath services. It is a new journey but it is a bad one. It is a bad and hard road. It should be more Turas...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person who does not engage with JobPath can be threatened to have their social protection payment stopped if they remain actively available for and seeking work, thereby satisfying jobseekers criteria; the reason participation in JobPath is mandatory if persons remain willing to engage with other job activation measures and schemes;...

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...with little expertise but with commonsense, are running those schemes. However, they are becoming too restrictive, so we must examine that. On the other hand, a new programme has been set up for job activation called JobPath. It is in my constituency. A gentleman from a family I know - he and his wife have worked all of their lives - has contacted me a number of times in the past 15...