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Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...services and job clubs are not against procurement. We know that. We see it in the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, and the tendering process there. The Minister referred to JobPath. Two or three years ago, a motion was passed in the previous Dáil to end JobPath. It was not just Sinn Féin talking about it. After almost six years, the programme has...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Mark Ward: ...to provide public services. This has failed miserably in respect of housing, water charges and bin collections, and will fail miserably with job activation models. The Minister of State mentioned JobPath. Some 400,000 people engaged with JobPath between 2015 and 2021, and only 26,000 found employment lasting over a year, at a cost of €275 million to the Exchequer. The new...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ..., which includes nine recommendations, some of which overlap with the motion. It calls clearly on the Minister and the Government to see sense on this matter. It recommends that the Department review JobPath once the referrals cease. I will not read out all the recommendations but the last one asks that the Minister responds to the report. Perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy,...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...and job clubs, with which I fully agree. The motion refers to the number of staff in those services, with selective out-takes from the Indecon report. We have also heard the condemnation of the JobPath service as poorly performing, with no mention of the over 480 staff employed in the JobPath service and their dedication to the people they are assisting, despite the Comptroller and...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...assist people in getting into decent jobs. It is what most people would perceive the purpose of social protection to be. It should not be there to make profits. What is being prepared here is JobPath 2. The estimated cost of JobPath was €11,000 per successful participant. There is a model of incentivisation not for people to end up with the best possible jobs and to be given...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...LES contractors have been informed they will only receive a six-month contract for 2022, then the service will end. This service will be replaced by a model which will operate similar to the current JobPath, and with the price paid per client instead of a not-for-profit model. If we look at what happened in the past as a good guide to future behaviour, we can see there is not sufficient...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Seán Canney: ...have their paperwork up to date. While the whole place could be falling down around them, the computer and the system is right. We must look at this in a common-sense way. I refer in particular to JobPath. Over my time as an elected representative I have received many representations from people who found that JobPath is actually depriving local community services of the ability to...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...those 480 people who get up every day, go to work every day and do their best to help people across this country. The evidence from the OECD report clearly shows that individuals who were supported by JobPath were more likely to enter employment, remain in employment for longer and have higher earnings from employment. I encourage the Sinn Féin Deputies to speak to their party...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...had a complaint about that service from people who are unemployed or from businesses. It was a tremendous service that is serving our community for 20 years, a whole generation. When it comes to JobPath and the Tory, right wing privatisation model, I could not tell the number of people in the community sector who are unemployed and have had a terrible, demeaning, dehumanising experience...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Johnny Mythen: ...currently provided by job clubs and local employment services based on an unpublished report and incorrect reference to EU procurement of contracts. This is based on the previous record of JobPath, which had a success rate of 6% between 2015 and 2021, costing the taxpayer €275 million. Worst of all, it is based on the ethos of privatisation, throwing citizens into a cauldron of...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Patricia Ryan: ...is the local community employment service. It provides an excellent service on a local level and has a supportive and sympathetic approach, unlike the suspicion that the likes of the disastrous JobPath scheme encourages, a scheme which has cost close to €300 million since 2015. If only local employment services could get similar funding. Of the almost 400,000 people referred to...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...particular, the design will address issues such as cash flow and minimum referral volumes, and will include a strong emphasis on social value and linkages. The Sinn Féin motion once again attacks JobPath, a contracted employment service delivered by Seetec and Turas Nua. The two companies involved are community and staff-based enterprises. One is owned by a farmers' co-operative...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In 2014, I told the then Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, that her JobPath scheme was the stuff of nightmares for the unemployed. After €300 million has been spent to achieve a success rate of just 6%, I have been proven correct. I also said the same about her other madcap scheme, JobBridge. I was also right when I highlighted at the time the concerns among the local...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: ...1998. It has secured the esteem and goodwill of the wider community. More important, by any matrix or standard, it has proven to be effective when compared to operations such as JobBridge and JobPath, about which you hear terms like "disconnected" and "out of touch" used. You never hear such terms in respect of the Monaghan local employment service because it works. It is a good...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the motion that is before the House this evening. The Government is proposing the total privatisation of employment activation services through the JobPath model. JobPath was introduced by the former Labour Party Minister, Joan Burton, and the Labour Party has stood over it for years. It has failed to provide quality employment for the vast majority of those who have used it....

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...stark reading. Many people rely on the local employment services in Limerick. They have done a great job and would have done a much better job with even a portion of the funding given annually to JobPath in its different incarnations. These services are vital to many Limerick communities. They are a crucial service particularly for those who are furthest away from the labour market....

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...and LESs in their current format; — support from both the Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland and the Mayor of Cork, Colm Kelleher for Job Clubs and LESs; — the failure of the current payment by results service, JobPath, provided by Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited; and — that of the 376,964 people referred to JobPath between July 2015 and July 2021 just over...