Results 1-20 of 115 for jobpath speaker:John Brady

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Places (31 May 2017)

John Brady: At this stage, over 97,000 people have been transferred to JobPath and the private companies Turas Nua and Seetec. Community employment schemes across the State are in serious trouble not just because of the creation of JobPath but also because the lack of funding has thrown open a series of other challenges for community employment schemes. It is not just the low unemployment rates that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

John Brady: More than €202 million has been given to the private companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, to roll out what can only be described as the failed JobPath programme. To date, more than 232,000 citizens have been referred to JobPath, some of them for the fourth year in succession. I refer to "failed" JobPath because only 6%, or approximately 15,000, of those people have been sustained in...

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

John Brady: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— JobPath was set up by Fine Gael and the Labour Party in July 2015, with the aim of assisting the long-term unemployed to secure and sustain employment; — contracts to deliver JobPath on behalf of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection were signed with two private companies – Turas Nua and Seetec;...

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

John Brady: On reading the details and having listened to the Minister, it is clear that the problems experienced by people locked into JobPath will continue. We know that underemployed persons are being actively targeted to join the JobPath programme. We are being told that people locked into JobPath can participate in Tús and community employment schemes, but they will be treated in the same way...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

John Brady: The privatisation of the job activation programme through JobPath has been a nightmare for job seekers across the State. I have raised this issue on numerous occasions with the Minister and her predecessor. Is she aware of the serious difficulties within the JobPath programme and that JobPath is going above and beyond what it was set up to do?

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

John Brady: ...attending. Community employment is certainly a scheme that works and rarely gives rise to complaints. The biggest complaint I get is the difficulties in accessing it, particularly in relation to JobPath. It does Trojan work in communities the length and breadth of the State. It throws open many challenges for the State. People on CE schemes are doing work that should be full-time...

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

John Brady: ...issue with their entitlement to pensions. I believe the WRC made a ruling on pensions for supervisors and assistant supervisors. What work is the Department doing to address that? I believe JobPath is having a very detrimental impact. Does the Department view the training within JobPath as being satisfactory? I have not met anyone who has voluntarily participated in JobPath. I have...

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

John Brady: Yes, for JobPath and with respect to where people are to go. I take on board what was said about the process of the year lead-up to that. Many people have called to my constituency offices, and the same applies to other Deputies, who have told me they want to participate on community employment schemes. They have identified that themselves, whether it be to get a QQI qualification or to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Labour Activation Projects (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: The emergence of JobPath signalled a drive towards a privatisation agenda within the Department for job activation schemes. Since 2011, penalties have been increasing year on year for those who do not engage in a job activation scheme. Between 2011 and 2016, more than 27,000 people were sanctioned. As the live register goes down, penalties go up. Is this a new policy within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: ...is a massive number of vacancies on them. She will say that this is because there is less unemployment and there are not enough people to fill them. That is nonsense. The number of referrals to JobPath continues to increase. More than 206,000 people have been referred to JobPath. People are now being referred to JobPath for a third year. They are essentially doing exactly the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: JobPath Programme: Discussion (17 Jan 2019)

John Brady: I have a few observations and questions that stem from the answers given. I was struck by the comment made by Dr. Boland in his concluding remarks that JobPath obviously did not work, that it damaged users and everyone in the workforce and that there could be liabilities downstream. That was a huge statement to make. I have said this is an investigation in the making and that we will come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

John Brady: ...battle, the seeds of which are long planted. In 2012, the unemployment rate was 16%. There was a 6.7% decrease in that rate through schemes before the onset of the privatised model, that being, JobPath's Turas Nua and Seetec. When the Minister claims in the Dáil that JobPath has been the most successful labour activation scheme in the history of the State, I refer her to these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: JobPath Programme: Discussion (17 Jan 2019)

John Brady: ...Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, has also dismissed them. Today's presentations, based on interviews with participants, shows that many identified JobPath as the State deliberately attempting to lower people's expectations of work. When the then Minister for Social Protection, now the Taoiseach, came before this committee previously, he let...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

John Brady: JobPath was set up initially to assist the long-term unemployed. The Minister made reference to a figure of 120,000 people, only a small number of whom have made complaints. The reality is that people are afraid to complain because of the powers JobPath has to stop or curtail payments or withold a portion of a payment. It is not working and there are serious problems in relation to what it...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (23 May 2017)

John Brady: 338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the fees payable to both JobPath providers (details supplied) have been reduced by between 4% and 16% since the introduction of Jobpath in view of changes in employment levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24482/17]

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Places (31 May 2017)

John Brady: The focus on JobPath as opposed to all other job activation schemes is something I have raised with the Minister consistently in the last year. If the focus on JobPath continues, how does he realistically expect to fill the many vacant community employment scheme places in the State?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (25 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to Jobpath since its commencement; the number that gained full-time and part-time employment as a direct result of Jobpath; and the sectors in which employment was gained. [3825/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (25 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Turas Nua and Seetec offices here; the year each office began providing the Jobpath service; and the corresponding number of times each office has been inspected since jobpath commenced. [3830/18]

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

John Brady: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the effect the recently announced changes to the JobPath scheme will mean for new and existing JobPath participants who wish to move to other schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19487/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

John Brady: According to Turas Nua, 14% of its staff have been taken from the live register. Did these staff come through the JobPath programme? Similarly, did employees of Seetec come through the JobPath programme?