Results 1-5 of 5 for jobpath speaker:Eugene Murphy

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Support Services (21 Oct 2021)

Eugene Murphy: ...Service is to “consolidate existing LES and Job Clubs service and to extend it nationwide”, but the opposite seems to be happening. Disappointingly the tender appeared very similar to the JobPath service already in existence. Why was the service model changed? I can say that having read the tender, absolutely no part of the Job Club service has been incorporated in this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jul 2020)

Eugene Murphy: ...also assisting in providing certain services to benefit communities. Currently, there is a restriction on the random selection process for those on jobseeker's allowance as they are engaging with JobPath. Removing those restrictions would significantly increase the number of participants available to Tús, resulting in a higher number of jobseekers gaining the opportunity to get...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Eugene Murphy: ...honest assessment of the situation. I welcome the number of people who can now go onto the Tús and rural social schemes and so on.There is a problem in that, under the current rules, many people on JobPath cannot access Tús and other schemes. I ask the Minister to examine that issue and the potential to fill the positions that are becoming available. I will give her more...

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

Eugene Murphy: ...risen to more than 21,000. I assure the Minister of State, from speaking to people since I was elected to this House in 2016, that one of the most hated schemes ever introduced by a Government was JobPath. When asked about the scheme by constituents, I always said I would make representations about it as I was genuinely worried about the state of mind of some of them. People were being...

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

Eugene Murphy: 37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on JobPath in counties Roscommon and Galway since its introduction in July 2015 to 2016 to date in tabular form; the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway on community employment schemes over the same time period in tabular form; his views on the impact of JobPath on vital community focused community employment...