Results 21-40 of 55 for jobpath speaker:Bríd Smith

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

Bríd Smith: ...Protection the number of cases in which penalty rates applied within the referrals for sanctions implemented; the number of cases in which disqualifications or disallowances were implemented by JobPath providers and in other activation programmes, respectively; and the processes undertaken to ensure that the escalation from penalty rates to disqualifications is appropriate and justified....

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: JobPath Data (6 Mar 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...had sanctions applied as a result of failure to attend meetings and to avail of suitable education, training or development opportunities or specified employment programmes and schemes under the JobPath programme. [11033/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...by the academics from Waterford, to actively and capriciously patronise, cajole, threaten, manipulate and bully the unemployed. That is exactly the sort of research on the response of the public to JobPath and the companies that run it. The Minister is in real danger of recreating the national children's hospital on a small scale by saying that it does not matter what Working Links does...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...ignore the democratic wishes of the majority of the House, not least given that she must make a decision on whether she will renew the contract. Will she indicate whether she intends to renew the JobPath contract for the two companies? It has emerged that one of the companies, namely, Turas Nua, outsources to another company, namely, Working Links, which has received 50% of the money...

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]

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: JobPath Programme: Discussion (17 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...them through Intreo or random selection? Have any of the delegates done work on the number of individuals who have been blocked from going back to education or into a community employment scheme? They are called into JobPath and are told by a different Department, almost simultaneously, sometimes within days or even hours, that they have the back-to-education allowance or that there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Minister's angry tone at my questions indicates a certain defensiveness. My point about the jobseekers is the rate at which penalties are soaring, from 63 on JobPath in 2015 to 5,681 in 2018. I get my figures from the Minister's Department. The figure for 2017 for the number of disallowed carer's applications is 8,599. On appeal, 1,270 were allowed. That is quite high. It means that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...the State billions of euro by doing that care work at home. We discussed this already. Another cohort of people in the appeals process are those I referred to earlier. The number penalised on JobPath in 2016 was 63 and it soared in 2018 to 5,681. They are penalised and then they appeal. It is not the other way around. There is a problem with backlogs of appeal.

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

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the contracts with JobPath providers will be extended; the date on which the current contracts expire; if a value for money study will be commissioned into the service provided by both companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53449/18]

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: 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 Programme (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the growth in the use of sanctions by her Department against social welfare claimants on foot of their interaction with JobPath providers; if a review mechanism prior to the enactment of such sanctions will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38854/18]

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

Bríd Smith: ...answers from all three organisations to the questions I want to ask. The first question is to the Department and, indeed, Seetec and Turas Nua. Would the witnesses agree that the introduction of JobPath and this way of dealing with unemployment, including the allocation of this work to those companies, came about as a result of pressure from the troika when we were in trouble in 2011...

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...

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

Bríd Smith: ...in homeless accommodation due to the fact that these individuals cannot afford to pay rent. Is the organisational model of Seetec, Turas Nua and the Department working together to create this JobPath scheme concerned at the type of low-paid, precarious and often bogus self-employment that people are pushed into because if they fail to do otherwise, they will be penalised?

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]

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...

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...