Results 1-20 of 20 for jobpath speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... The issue is that the local employment service and jobs clubs focus on the hardest to reach and those who are most remote from the labour market to encourage them to enter those services. JobPath has had success after success. Obviously, it focused on the people most likely to get jobs and, in many cases, those people would probably have jobs in any event. I have two specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...fairly fast. Has any analysis been done on how many of the 20,000 people who secured long-term employment and the 70,000 people who secured short-term employment would have secured employment if JobPath not existed? That is the true value of JobPath. It is not the number who managed to get a job because from my experience of the world, it is fair to surmise that different people have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (9 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the tendering processes that were followed in respect of the allocation of contracts under the JobPath programme in 2021; the number of applications received under each tender; the process by which they were evaluated; the areas tenders allocated in 2021 cover; the length of each successful new contract; and if she will...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Proposed Regional Employment Service: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...latter. There is a cold chill going down a lot of people's backs with the fear that when the SICAP comes up for retendering a similar results-based approach will be taken. My experience of the JobPath programme over the last number of years has not been good. I am not blaming the providers because they just bake the cake according to the recipe. JobPath encouraged throughput, numbers...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...more people than ever were on the PUP and standard unemployment payments. A lot of this is attributable to two things. The first is people not being referred to these schemes because a hold back by the JobPath programme where people who are very unlikely to get employment are not able to access these schemes because they must go through a whole process with JobPath first. The second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions and Considerations (Resumed): Irish Local Development Network (19 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...to us saying that the contracts legally terminate on a certain date. Can that issue be clarified? Are ILDN companies interested in taking over or doing the work previously done by Turas Nua, JobPath in other words, and Seetec? Again, we should not bring in multinationals to do this work. It would be much better done by partnership companies where the board would be made up of local...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...being put forward to the CE companies that have vacancies and that badly need the workers but cannot get them because the names are not being put forward. I understand that the reason for that relates to JobPath. I have never favoured JobPath as an approach. I am very wary of privatising and monetising data because it is a game of just calling everyone in and getting paid. If the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... Will the Minister make the OECD report available to us? I would be interested in seeing the methodology that the OECD used to work out the magic figure of 17%. I have a funny feeling that it was working on JobPath's reports, and what would they tell someone other than it pays very well, given that the contractors' livelihoods depending on giving a good answer? From my experience on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...would retain them. It is important that people can get in there and prove their worth. We have discussed internships in the public service, including in this House, among ourselves. It is absolutely vital. I hate JobPath. I have a total aversion to it. Most people who get jobs through JobPath would have got the jobs anyway. It is a total waste of money. I have my suspicions about...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...take up employment. It is as simple as that. The figures for unemployment are going to come down. The idea that the Minister can claim that all of the decrease in the unemployment figures is due to JobPath is absolutely and scientifically fallacious. I am totally in favour of rote calling people in on the basis of severe penalty if they do not turn up. Perhaps the Minister does not...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...find the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection writing to them asking them what they have in the bank. If they knew to put it just into the one name of the person who had earned it then they could not be touched. It is quite farcical. The whole way of assessing capital needs to be reformed. I will move on to JobPath. I believe JobPath is a total waste of money, and I...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (15 May 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the change in rules that allows persons on JobPath to take up places on community employment and Tús schemes extends also to the RSS and CSP schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20883/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (13 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons who work part time for three or four days a week are being forced to participate on JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7183/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Feb 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have had their jobseeker's payments stopped due to the fact they did not engage with Jobpath; if there has been a High Court ruling on the legality of this process; her plans to cease stopping payments for those not engaging in jobpath; if persons that had their payments stopped will be entitled...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (7 Nov 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional jobs created by the JobPath programme; the cost of the programme to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46338/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: JobPath.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (7 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...participants on community employment schemes and the Tús scheme remain for extended periods on these schemes in areas in which it is proving difficult to fill vacancies on these schemes due to the JobPath programme, in view of the statement made by An Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann in regard to this matter during Leaders' Questions on 31 January 2017; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (30 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount that will be paid in 2016 to external companies that provide services under the JobPath programme; if it is intended to carry out a review of the efficacy of this programme; when the current contracts with the external companies will come to an end; if it is intended to continue with this approach; and if he will make a statement on...

Topical Issue Debate: JobPath Implementation (15 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tuigim go mbeidh an tAire Stáit, an Teachta Kyne, ag tógáil na ceiste seo. Tá áthas orm faoi sin mar tá mé cinnte go dtuigfidh sé bunús na ceiste. I have no major argument with JobPath in its own right, many people who will never get commercial employment are being enrolled in it. The Minister of State knows the type of people I am talking...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (14 Jun 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why persons who are long-time on JobPath with private companies and have not succeeded in getting employment are ineligible under the Tús – work placement initiative; if he will review this rule to enable such persons to engage in meaningful work each day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15333/16]