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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: ...have come forward at this point? How is the scheme proceeding? It is a welcome development. I also have questions on the live register and specifically on labour activation measures such as JobPath. More than 150,000 people have now been referred over to Turas Nua and to Community Training and Education and Education Centres, CTEC. Last week I asked the Minister about the nature...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: ...of these people have Masters degrees, Minister, and we now expect them to engage in further upskilling. They do not need upskilling. They need proper, sustained employment, not to be sent over to JobPath or whatever. They need jobs and this discrimination needs to end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
Regina Doherty: ...so do. Back to education is only one option. The ambition of the Department, the Government and most Deputies in Dáil Éireann is to get the unemployed or under-employed into full-time employment. JobPath was an ambitious programme launched by the previous Minister for Social Protection and it has hit the money. There was a target of finding full employment for 8% of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
Willie O'Dea: ...employment schemes to get people to involve themselves in such schemes, which have done a lot of very useful work locally. There is a rule that exacerbates this difficulty. If a person is put onto JobPath, he or she is tied up for 12 months and even though he or she might be available for a local community employment scheme, he or she is not entitled to go on it. Some of the local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
Joe Carey: ...seem to be losing people who are over 55. Their time runs up, they just get one crack at the scheme now and schemes are falling apart. This issue should be looked at. Equally, if a person is on JobPath, he or she cannot transfer over to a CE scheme, even if the scheme is in jeopardy of falling apart. This should be examined. Turning to the processing times for payments, such as...