Results 1-20 of 31 for jobpath speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move:That Seanad Éireann recognises: - the significant involvement of private, profit making companies in the operation of JobPath where tax payers’ money is used; - that the method and manner in which candidates are chosen for inclusion on JobPath very often includes people who are not long-term unemployed; - that the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend my colleagues, Deputies Denise Mitchell and John Brady, on producing a report on JobPath. Several months ago, I and Senator Ó Clochartaigh, along with a number of other Senators, raised in the House what can only be described as the swindle taking place in the JobPath scheme. I want the Minister to come to the House to answer some straightforward questions on the scheme. For...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Unfortunately, we are not in government here yet, but when we are we will not be privatising social protection in the way it has been done with JobPath. JobPath is an absolute scandal. I asked specific questions last December when I and Senators Ó Clochartaigh and Gavan raised this matter first. One question was about the set-up of the JobPath scheme and, in particular, about Seetec...

Seanad: JobPath: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... I will come straight to the point as I know the Minister is a busy man. I have a number of questions, to which I have been unable to get answers, despite numerous attempts. How much has the JobPath programme cost to date? I want a figure for the cost of the whole tendering process, the use of economic research specialists and the legal costs around it. Will the Minister please give...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The people who are watching this debate are people who are affected by JobPath, people who are owned by a private company, people who are told they cannot go on a CE scheme, people who are ordered to do things, people who cannot read or write but are given leaflets by the JobPath providers, people who are experiencing domestic violence and people with mental health difficulties. The type of...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is okay. I agree with you. Last June or July, the Minister said he was going to refer 60,000 unemployed people to private operators under the JobPath scheme, to take the people off the live register and make the numbers look good. We need a proper examination of this. I have encountered cases where people more than 60 years old, who are waiting for hip operations, are being sent to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...had it all before. This is like Fianna Fáil's personnel, payroll and related systems, PPARS, but much worse. Other projects such as the national broadband plan, the Carillion debacle and the JobPath debacle have seen millions wasted by vested interests and because the proper procurement procedures are not in place. It is time for the Minister to say exactly what he will do...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Employment Service (23 Nov 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...as part of the Pathways to Work initiative, ensuring activation clients are met and supported on a monthly basis. I am concerned that this reduction is part of the Department's obligations to ensure JobPath contractors have sufficient client referrals to comply with the contractual agreement with the Department. Will the Minister explain why the Government thought it necessary to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will finish with that. I do not think that the capacity to deliver the projects, or the will to deliver them with real value for money, is there. I refer to JobPath. The Minister may have been involved in that, or perhaps the Taoiseach was. The Taoiseach was the Minister in charge at the time. I raised JobPath and the waste of money involved in it with him before he was Taoiseach. The...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...in the House 12 months ago and at the time we put all those issues to the then Minister, Deputy Varadkar, who is now the Taoiseach. He gave his responses and we told him what had to be done with JobPath, what had to be done to protect our most vulnerable citizens and what had to be done to give people genuine supports and pathways into employment. It made no difference. We told him the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I just think that JobPath deserves a focused session.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is because of JobPath and every other scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: On a point of information relating to JobPath-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will tell you very simply. The Leader referred to the JobPath review not being completed. It has been completed and published. I have it before me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It would but if we are looking at Brexit and then at something like JobPath, the companies to which the service has been tendered out will be outside the EU once Brexit takes place. That worries me greatly.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: How much has the Department paid to each of these companies since JobPath was set up?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: I am very conscious of the time. I just want a short explanation of how somebody can be told to pass a local employment scheme office to travel 30 miles to go to JobPath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...using the procurement model that has led us to so many failures. These failures include the situation we faced with Carillion, which the committee examined; the national broadband plan; and JobPath, which will be discussed in the Dáil later this evening and in respect of which we have spent approximately €100 million on engaging private companies. We never saw the contracts...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...December, my Sinn Féin colleagues and I requested that the Minister for Social Protection be invited to the House to debate the concerns being raised in communities across the country about the JobPath scheme. I ask the Leader to do this as a matter of urgency and certainly not later than next Wednesday. I am aware that the Minister is busy on other matters and he might be even...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wanted to talk about another issue this morning but I have just come from a briefing by the Department of Social Protection about JobPath. I have very many concerns about this. My first concern is that in the west, the provision is made by the private company Seetec. I have nothing against Seetec, but it is a company that is based in Essex in the UK. One of my questions to the...