Results 1-20 of 55 for jobpath speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person participating in the JobPath programme who declines to sign a consent form allowing Seetec to make contact with employers of perspective employers on their behalf, will be sanctioned or penalised in any way; how programme participants' personal data is stored, processed and shared; how this complies with Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can clarify if Seetec have been awarded the contract for operating the JobPath programme; the costs of this award; the length of time the company will operate it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29665/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. In January 2019, the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection examined the experience of JobPath and heard from researchers from the Waterford Un/employment Research Collaborative. One of the first things the researchers mentioned was the experience of the Traveller community on JobPath. Among other nasty experiences...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (28 Apr 2021)

Bríd Smith: 650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the conditions under which a person receiving a jobseeker’s payment can be referred to a JobPath provider; if they must be deemed to be long-term unemployed; the definition used for long-term unemployed; if a person in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit can be referred to a JobPath provider; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...partnerships. When the Taoiseach was in opposition, I sat on the social protection committee chaired by a Fianna Fáil Deputy and well attended by Fianna Fáil Members, all of whom opposed the JobPath model mainly run by Seetec and Turas Nua which was basically a punitive model that chased the unemployed down, punished them and made them feel guilty for being unemployed as against...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...messages during the austerity years sent a clear signal to our youth that they had to leave the country or get used to living in poverty within State supports when they are out of work. When we introduced the JobPath schemes, we sent another message that told people to stay here and we would help them to take up low paid, precarious employment by forcing them, with the threat of sanction...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (14 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: 708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the JobPath scheme; when current contracts with providers Turas Nua and Seetec will expire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14772/20]

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...to be wrongdoing. Yesterday, during questions to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, we found out that over 50,000 jobseekers had been sanctioned financially under the JobPath programme. Under the Electoral Acts, somebody who breaches the law in misusing his or her vote can receive a fine of up to €2,500 and/or a term of imprisonment for two years....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseekers who have entered the JobPath programme since its commencement; the number who faced sanctions from her Department in each year on foot of this interaction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43634/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: My question is on the number of jobseekers who have entered the JobPath programme since its commencement, the number who faced sanctions from the Department in each year on foot of this interaction and if the Minister will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: In February, a motion was passed in this Chamber calling for the Minister not to renew the contract for JobPath. In response to a parliamentary question last month, the Department told me there was an option to renew it for two years. Is this also for new referrals? There has been a 36% increase in the figures for people receiving penalties between 2017 and 2018. It is highly ironic that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Data (23 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is saying there will be no new referrals to JobPath but that the contract will be extended for a year. Will the extreme circumstances of Brexit be used as an excuse to bring penalties on those who are suffering job losses, such as those announced in Shannon and Cork in the past day or so? One figure suggests that only 9% of participants have secured long-term employment but...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if contracts for the provision of the JobPath programme will be renewed; and when a decision on the matter will be made. [38806/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (25 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the JobPath provider Seetec is issuing notices to jobseekers detailing its policy on tackling radicalism; if jobseekers have been referred to her Department or An Garda Síochána in respect of same; the number of claimants that have been sanctioned or interviewed on foot of the concerns of Seetec relating...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the contracts with JobPath providers will expire; when a decision on the future of the scheme will be made; if the recent Dáil Éireann motion on the issue will be taken into account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15655/19]

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

Bríd Smith: ...by services in reducing unemployment locally are already being ticked by existing schemes, which have had fantastic results. Before the for-profit model of employment activation was introduced via JobPath and so on, there was a 6.7% reduction in unemployment between 2012 and 2015 through the methods provided by our guests' organisations. Compare that with the reduction achieved by Seetec...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: JobPath

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: What are the other active labour market policies the State has? It may cease calling it JobPath and call it something else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...misunderstands me. Workers are exploited everywhere. All workers are exploited all the time. We are not going to stop that. This is a measure to stop unemployed workers being pushed into JobPath.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (6 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals for sanctions that have been made in each of the years since 2015 by those made by JobPath providers and elsewhere in other activation programmes, respectively; and the number of referrals implemented by deciding officers by JobPath providers and those made elsewhere in activation processes,...