Results 1-12 of 12 for jobpath speaker:Martin Kenny

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Martin Kenny: I understand that. My question is for the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty. Many of today's questions were not. We have had many problems with JobPath, which I will not get into as I wish to raise a specific issue relating to JobPath. A man in my constituency works for a company that put its workers on a three-day week when the hard times came. It did not sack them but tried to work with...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (10 Apr 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...is over a certain age he or she can only stay for one or two years. I have people coming to me who are in their early sixties and are not going to get a job anywhere else. They have been brought into JobPath to fill out forms and do CVs to look for jobs that do not exist. Somebody somewhere needs to cop on that the place for those people, the place they want to work and want to be, is...

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

Martin Kenny: JobPath has been an abject failure for the people who have engaged with it, virtually throughout Ireland. In my constituency, everyone engaged in the JobPath process with whom I have spoken has said so. I am not just talking about those who have entered the scheme and found that it did not work for them because they did not find the kind of job they wanted. People who found jobs they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural Businesses: Irish Local Development Network (27 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...to get out of the trap to which I refer. Many of the schemes in my area do great work. They have people in their late 50s and early 60s who will not get a job in the economy yet they are sent to JobPath to write curricula vitae for jobs that do not exist. What are our guests' views in that regard? I am of the view that it is creating a logjam and that it is an issue which must be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...being done in them. It is a very good scheme and it is working well but the problem we have is that many people are looking to get on it, with community projects that have the work to do, but the JobPath people are getting letters for jobs that do not exist. I know an elderly woman who might beat me across the head if she heard me calling her elderly who was called into JobPath. She is...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...That is something that needs to be addressed. Is there an opportunity to provide for that in this Bill? It is one of the issues I wanted to raise with the Minister. The other issue relates to JobPath, which was referred to by previous speakers. JobPath has been raised with me in the past 12 to 18 months. A private company has been set up to deliver the service. It is a work action...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...is the work activation schemes that are brought forward by the Government. They do not take account of people living in rural areas who have to travel long distances and the costs involved in that. The JobPath programme, which already has many problems, is a typical example. People in rural areas are expected to travel three and four times a week to JobPath centres and get no expenses...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: Under the programme for Government we have a scheme called JobPath. It is being delivered in my constituency by a private company called Seetec. For people in rural Ireland this is a major difficulty because many of them have to travel long distances to make the appointments. Recently, I was contacted by a woman from west Cavan. She is 30 miles from Cavan town. She was told that she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...that is providing a service to the community and the people in it to a more Civil Service-type organisation. I think that is a dangerous path to go down. One fear I have concerns the emphasis that has been put on JobPath and how that has become a private company, in that two private companies are now running that system. I fear this is the direction in which the provision of services to...

Topical Issue Debate: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Administration (7 Feb 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...services, assigning them to eight different regions, and employ a manager to run each agency in each region. I fear it is intended to privatise the service, like Seetec which provides services through JobPath and which has turned into a total disaster for the public. We do not want to let this service go down that road. The Minister needs to issue a policy directive to the CIB under...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...in such a way as to ensure it will not break even never mind make a profit. The reality is that people in rural Ireland have no bus services. I was recently contacted by a person who was called to attend a JobPath meeting. The person lives in rural Ireland and when they said that they did not have a car to get to the meeting, they were told to take the bus. This person would have to...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Martin Kenny: ...continue doing that. She had hoped when this work had finished that she would be able to go onto a community employment scheme. She was about to be accepted onto one, when she received a letter from JobPath. The shutters came down and she is unable to go anywhere else. The truth is there are very few jobs for anyone in rural County Leitrim, particularly for those who are 62 years of...