Results 1-20 of 24 for jobpath speaker:David Cullinane
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: ...week. It was correspondence from the Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding his last visit here. I posed a number of questions to him regarding JobPath and its overall cost, which I think has been over €70 million. I asked specific questions about referrals. I asked whether it was possible for somebody to be referred a third...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019) David Cullinane: I apologise for being in and out of the Dáil Chamber and committees. I have two or three questions on the public services card and JobPath. Mr. McKeon might have answered some earlier but I will ask specific questions I have. In a previous response, Mr. McKeon said that there is no halo of infallibility around anybody. We can accept that, whether we are talking about Mr. McKeon, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019) David Cullinane: I ask Mr. McKeon to provide a detailed note on this. I have a few quick questions on JobPath before I finish. The last time the Department was before us we got a breakdown of how much has been paid to Turas Nua and Seetec. I am assuming that the figure has gone up slightly since. Does Mr. McKeon have the most up-to-date figures with him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)
David Cullinane: I declare a conflict of interest in that I have called for JobPath to be scrapped, so anything I say should be seen clearly in that context. The total cost was €163 million. The number of participants in full-time employment for more than 12 months was actually quite low. That was the issue we had raised with those concerned. The other point that needs to be put into context when...
- JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)
David Cullinane: JobPath was described today as short-term, coercive and ruthless by several academics from Waterford Institute of Technology. A submission was presented to Deputy Brady by over 29 community-based groups who run the community employment scheme. They have a similar view of the scheme. People who use the system and who use other systems have a view of JobPath that is the polar opposite of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: I will deal with JobPath in the context of the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report and the Appropriation Accounts. I will put the same questions to Mr. McKeon as I put to him at our previous meeting because we wish to assess whether we are getting value for money. The Comptroller and Auditor General looked at the process, rather than whether the project represented value for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: There were two companies who rolled out JobPath, namely, Seetec and Turas Nua. Can Mr. McKeon provide a breakdown of how much of the €109 million listed in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General went to each of the two organisations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: How many people have gone through JobPath?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: On page 143 of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, it is stated that, of the 62,631 jobseekers engaged with JobPath, 15,731 commenced a job of some duration but only 1.75%, equal to 1,096, sustained employment for one year.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: That is fine. Of the 190,000 who came through JobPath, how many came through twice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: Is that a measure of success? That means these companies were paid twice for the same individuals, but the whole purpose of going through JobPath is to get a job or some level of employment. What was the cost of putting 15,000 people through twice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) David Cullinane: I understand that, but 15,000 of 190,000 going back to JobPath seems to be a high number. While the companies receive only the initial registration fee, they receive it twice. I am trying to tease this out from the point of view of the companies and what incentives there are for them to make money, because that is their aim. The period of 13 weeks is too low a threshold for the first...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
David Cullinane: This is a very good example of something we were discussing last week. We will try to ask an Accounting Officer questions on many different issues. I am thinking about JobPath and some of the others. We had those officials in previously and we did not get information. They said they were not in a position to give us information. This is one of those meetings where we need to signal well...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)
David Cullinane: That is a good option if we need it. When they appeared last time and the JobPath issue was raised, my recollection is that we got the figure for the overall spend. Two companies roll this service out. We got the overall figure but then we were told they could not give the breakdown for each company because then the other company would know. However, the other company would have known...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
David Cullinane: ...to be told that the Department cannot answer those questions and that it is a matter for local authorities. That happened with RTÉ, which I will raise again in a few minutes. We had that with JobPath when the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection was in, and it was a big chunk of their budget. It said that it could not answer those questions, that it signed a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
David Cullinane: The Chair mentioned the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I put a series of questions in regard to JobPath to the Accounting Officer of that Department. I find it incredible that the witnesses were able to give us a headline figure of how much was spent over an 18-month period but were unable to break down or even provide a headline figure for how much was spent on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)
David Cullinane: ...amount of money and the Accounting Officer was only able to tell us that a cheque for €170 million is signed and that is about it. That is not appropriate. The same applies to the situation involving JobPath. This was a significant percentage of the budget of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The money is given to those two organisations and we were...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)
David Cullinane: JobPath is one example. I believe that €71 million was outsourced there to two companies. Are these companies audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General? I imagine they are not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) David Cullinane: ...a mistake and learning from the process. It is important as we do not get enough of this from Accounting Officers. That is the right approach. Which of Mr. McKeon's colleagues is responsible for JobPath?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) David Cullinane: How much did JobPath cost from July 2015 to September 2017?