Results 1-20 of 22 for jobpath speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a jobseeker can continue participating in a part-time Springboard programme, while being referred to Seetec or JobPath. [30193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons are still being referred to JobPath. [13014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is engaging with JobPath is obliged to sign a personal progression plan; and if they refuse to do so, if they can face sanctions. [13015/22]

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...assist people in getting into decent jobs. It is what most people would perceive the purpose of social protection to be. It should not be there to make profits. What is being prepared here is JobPath 2. The estimated cost of JobPath was €11,000 per successful participant. There is a model of incentivisation not for people to end up with the best possible jobs and to be given...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... They work alongside them to try to get jobs that would be suitable for them. They rightly pointed out that the drive of the Government would turn this from a useful service that helps people into a JobPath 2, where the service is outsourced to private companies that have horrific records in Britain and here, put pressure on people and are just interested in ticking boxes that maximise...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...a clear reference to increased outsourcing of so-called case workers. This will mean a greater involvement of companies such as Seetec, Turas Nua and other companies that are currently involved in JobPath. This is a dangerous road to go down from the point of view of the public sector and jobseekers. There is an alternative to these kinds of free labour schemes that displace existing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if JobPath has been closed down in accordance with the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2019; if contracts to administer JobPath made by her Department or any other Department with Turas Nua or Seetec have either been suspended or cancelled; if in the current context of mass unemployment neither Turas...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans or those of her Department with regard to so-called activation measures such as JobPath (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21883/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the continued operation of JobPath is inappropriate in the current circumstances of mass layoffs, job losses and restrictions on travel due to Covid-19; if the motion taken in Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2019 to close down the JobPath scheme will be acted upon; if she will terminate the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 1223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was targeted for inclusion in the JobPath scheme run by a company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24652/18]

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...lack of stability and security and people being unable to plan their lives. They are existing instead of living. The counterpart to that precarious employment is precarious unemployment in the JobPath machine. Some 140,000 unemployed people have been turned into opportunities for profit for private companies. In the process and without significant debate, the provision of social...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: Let us go back to the question. The question is on the Government's JobPath scheme, which has failed in its stated aim of getting jobs for people. That is what the facts now demonstrate. Only 18% of participants get jobs, which is no higher than the rate for people who do not have access to JobPath. These companies have been accused of fraud in Britain. What is the Taoiseach doing to...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...and is using public money to demonise them in order to drive precarious employment. He is continuing in that same Thatcherite vein here. Will he please answer the question asked in respect of JobPath?

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...specifically outlined that will benefit young people. Instead the discriminatory under-26 rates of social welfare payment, such as jobseeker's allowance, are kept. Close to half a million young adults are living in their family homes because they cannot afford to get out. The Government insists on continuing those discriminatory rates of dole and forcing people to go to meaningless and...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...by the crisis, bankers or developers. Instead, there is only the lazy, the work-shy, those who cannot get up in the morning. A key part of this that has become very clear over the summer is JobPath, the so-called employment activation scheme into which people are being pushed on a very widespread basis. It involves private companies getting paid on a results basis of getting people into...

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

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath since its inception; the number of persons that have received a sanction on their welfare payments due to non-engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39649/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Apr 2016)

Paul Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had a penalty applied to their social protection payments for refusing to take part in the JobPath scheme, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8213/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Apr 2016)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints she has received from providers regarding participants whom they deemed to be not engaging under the JobPath scheme; the number of these participants who had penalties applied to their social protection payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8214/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Apr 2016)

Paul Murphy: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of reviews she has carried out into the operation of the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8215/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Apr 2016)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants under the JobPath scheme; the number who have secured full-time and part-time employment because of their participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8216/16]