Results 1-20 of 52 for jobpath speaker:Willie O'Dea

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Perhaps I am misunderstanding this, and I welcome the Minister's announcement that he intends to relax the rules relating to community employment, but my experience of JobPath has been that if people have been unemployed and in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for a certain period of time, that is sufficient to qualify for the JobPath scheme. However, they have come to me and said they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for her response. Did I understand her to say that if somebody was in the JobPath system, a vacancy occurred on a Tús or community employment scheme and he or she took up the place, he or she would have to continue with the JobPath service until the expiration of the 12 month period if he or she had already started? The Minister made reference to rearranging...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Working age employment supports is where we should be discussing JobPath. As I understand it, JobPath is an aid to employment. It is an employment support. Where exactly is it accounted for in chart 15? Community employment schemes, rural social schemes and all the other aids to employment are here but which refers to JobPath? We have JobsPlus and we have the wage subsidy scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 768. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons to date who have been referred to JobPath since it commenced; the number of those who have gained full-time employment due to participation in JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32911/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the assurances that can be provided that jobseekers who have been selected for the JobPath activation scheme will not be forced into unsuitable and inappropriate jobs given that participation on JobPath is mandatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18818/16]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (8 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath since it commenced; the number of persons who have been subject to sanctions in each year to date for non-engagement with JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11190/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person has a right to refuse a place on JobPath in favour of a place on a community employment scheme; if there is a legal or statutory impediment that prevents a person from deciding to opt for a community employment scheme over a place on JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12309/18]

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

Willie O'Dea: ...motive takes precedence. Labour activation is a situation where the individual, particularly someone who has been long-term unemployed, should be front and centre. Anyone who studies how JobPath has functioned for the past number of years will conclude that the pay by results, rigid, one-size-fits-all model is not working. The profit motive predominates. As a result, countless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...were able to continue with it. What is the updated position on that? Representations have been made to me and, I am sure, to others as well about the problem concerning the interaction between JobPath and the community employment schemes. For example, people have said they are looking for personnel to fill a community employment scheme but they cannot get participants. There are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: .... Time will not permit me to read all of the e-mails, letters and other correspondence I have received on this issue, but a person from the Minister's constituency e-mailed me after finding the JobPath experience humiliating, stressful and demoralising. I have received a number of other e-mails. One person's connection with JobPath had accentuated their anxiety owing to the behaviour of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Out of all the queries, e-mails and personal visits I received on JobPath, I wish to read the Minister an excerpt from one e-mail which comes from someone in the Minister's constituency. I will be careful not to identify the person. The person said they will be 60 in a few weeks' time and they have been in full-time employment from 1976 until 2007 in a very responsible position.Currently I...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Jun 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the checks in place to ensure that two companies (details supplied) contracted to provide JobPath services are offering suitable and appropriate employment opportunities to participants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14236/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Jun 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual cost of contracting two companies (details supplied) to deliver JobPath services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14237/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (12 Jul 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath to date in each county in tablular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20563/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the criticisms being levelled at JobPath; if so, the way he plans to address these criticisms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36085/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I am raising this question because of the large volume of complaints that not only I am receiving but also other colleagues on all sides of the House about the operation of the JobPath scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 518. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently participating in the JobPath scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13477/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (21 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 520. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if JobPath will form part of the review to be carried out by his Department of activation programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13479/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (13 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints since commencement to date that have been made against the two companies tasked with delivering JobPath; the actions taken to investigate such complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34302/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns raised regrading the impact that JobPath is having on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39441/17]