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

Bríd Smith: Surely JobPath should be the last resort. If Mr. X is offered a place on a CE or Tús scheme at the same time that he is selected for JobPath, it is his preferred option, he is doing something useful and he is getting actual training instead of sitting in front of a screen every time he meets the Seetec people, surely that scheme is the better option. If the plumber up the road wants to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons participating on JobPath are paid by either JobPath or the employer for travel, childcare or lunch vouchers; and, if it is the employers who pay, if it is mandatory that they cover costs when they take on a JobPath participant. [32955/16]

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: ..., a decision that is in the best interests of the individual, and the recommendation is overridden by a private company such as Seetec. This company receives remuneration for taking people onto JobPath. It has a vested interest in keeping people on JobPath because it gets a payment for it: a registration payment when it brings a person onto JobPath and four retrospective payments if they...

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

Bríd Smith: I accept that but, in the case of Mr. X in Ballyfermot, the Department reviewed it and made a certain decision. JobPath came back and told it that it was not happy with that decision and that it wanted him to stay on JobPath for another 12 months. Mr. X had an opportunity to do a course in social care through a Tús scheme, something he was interested in and something we need in this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of sanctions and-or penalties applied to jobseekers on foot of information supplied by JobPath providers since the commencement of the JobPath programme by year in tabular form. [40937/18]

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

Bríd Smith: 293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases in which JobPath providers provide relevant statements from the client within the total number of referrals for sanctions; the number of cases in which deciding officers requested more information from JobPath providers; and the number of those that resulted in the eventual implementation of sanctions....

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,...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether the best interests of jobseekers are advanced by allowing JobPath operators the right to stop jobseekers from accepting placements with, for example, the Tús initiative and other schemes, even in circumstances where they applied for such placements in advance of being selected for JobPath; and if he will make a statement...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I want to ask the Minister's opinion on the disadvantage to people who are applying for Tús or CE schemes who are randomly selected by JobPath at the same time they are offered a CE scheme or Tús position and who are blocked from taking up those positions by the private operators which run JobPath. Could the Minister respond with what he thinks is in the best interests of the jobseeker?

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...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...for January, at which point he went onto a panel. He was interviewed again in January for a placement with a host company and was Garda vetted. Prior to taking up the Tús placement he was then randomly selected for JobPath. I contacted Intreo and the official got in touch with the JobPath centre to inquire if the selection for JobPath for this person could be deferred to allow the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the contracts for JobPath were put out to tender; the awarding process; the criteria on which it was based; if there was any other applicants; the personal data of persons participating on JobPath that will be passed onto the recruitment agencies; if persons participating will be notified in advance of their data and details being handed over;...

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

Bríd Smith: ...placement in January 2017 and placed on a panel. Mr. X was interviewed again on 30 January 2017 for a placement with a host company and Garda vetting was submitted on 2 February 2017. Mr. X was selected for JobPath on 9 January 2017, which was prior to the Tús placement being offered. JobPath would take the priority over Tús in this case. However, having spoken to Mr. X, I...

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

Bríd Smith: There must be some logic behind any scheme of this nature. I have looked for the logic behind the comprehensive JobPath scheme. Having done so and listened to the evidence presented to the joint committee and considered the relevant statistics, it appears that the whole project is based on the belief that the problem with unemployment is unemployed people. Having come through the 2008...

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

Bríd Smith: It is an unreasonable request in anybody's book given his poor language skills. Is the Department at all concerned that the companies involved, particularly Seetec, which runs the JobPath scheme, may head down the road shown in the film "I, Daniel Blake"? In Britain, 1 million people on disability allowance have been brought into the scheme's remit and the Department of Health and Social...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will re-examine the authority of JobPath operators that are able to overrule the placement offers to jobseekers on various community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8457/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Bríd Smith: 78. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the oversight his Department has on the operations of the private companies contracted to operate the JobPath initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17843/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a jobseeker that refuses to sign a PPP with a JobPath provider such as Seetec and so on will not automatically face sanctions from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase in sanctions and penalties taken against jobseekers is due to the interaction of the JobPath providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53448/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to continue contracts with JobPath providers in view of the recent Dáil Éireann motion in relation to the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8008/19]