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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Indemnity: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Michael Collins: ...night so that we can pay our insurance and our accountants. We have difficulties in that regard. We have 15 or 16 workers on various schemes, including the RSS, the community employment scheme, Tús, JobPath and HSE schemes. The witnesses are familiar with such schemes. Some of our members are also working on Tidy Towns initiatives. Between insurance and Garda vetting, it is...

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

Michael Collins: ...this will all fall on deaf ears, as has happened before. However, I hope that will not happen tonight. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, has hailed JobPath as the most successful job activation scheme in the history of the State. The employment outcomes of JobPath do not reflect this in reality. As of November 2018, 190,000 people had...

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

Michael Collins: JobPath, Turas Nua, or whatever it is. They all have fancy names. The bottom line is that it has been the ruination of community and voluntary groups in my area. If somebody is in JobPath, Turas Nua or whatever we call it, that person is firstly taken off the live register but still does not have a job. Secondly, that person cannot take a community employment, CE, job, a rural social...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: ...the rural plan will be one that will create many jobs. From what I have seen of it, I feel there is a lot of copy and paste in it but our judgement on that will be down the road. The set up of JobPath was poorly thought through, in my own view and the view of many in the community. Schemes like community employment schemes, Tús and the rural social scheme need further support....

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: ...stay on it until employment is found for him or her. Instead of that being the case many people who are called to go on CE, Tús or RS schemes in rural areas in particular have been told they are on JobPath and although they do not have a job they are not allowed to go on any other work scheme until JobPath finds them a job. That is causing a nightmare for community and voluntary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Michael Collins: ...the animal now, tagged with a number, and is no longer the individual, Michael, Linda or Patricia. We are now just a number and are treated as such. People on welfare are being harassed under the JobPath scheme. They are being frightened out of their homes and forced to travel into towns and villages to meet with officials who promise to secure them employment. They may not have public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Michael Collins: ...people who have been on that scheme for ten or 11 years and are absolutely delighted. It provided bread and butter for low-income farmers and fishermen, so that is an issue that should be taken up strongly. JobPath is a farce. People who are on social welfare are nearly treated like slaves. They come into towns and villages a few days a week trying to sign up to this while a UK...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Michael Collins: ...told that everything is on schedule, but how can that be when nobody knows what is happening. The rural social scheme and Tús are hugely important in rural communities, as the witnesses well know. However, the JobPath scheme has come into play and has disrupted the Tús scheme in particular. Somebody might be identified for Tús but once they have been identified for...