Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 November 2015
119. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 5 November 2015, if employees of Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited will have any role in the sanctioning of persons on JobPath, whether by way of a recommendation to her Department that a person be sanctioned, by way of sanctions imposed by those companies themselves or by any other mechanism. [40091/15]
View answerJobPath is a new approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. All decisions regarding a person’s welfare entitlements while on JobPath will be taken only by Departmental officials and not by the JobPath companies. The JobPath companies may neither recommend nor apply a sanction to a jobseeker. They are entitled to submit cases, duly evidenced, for consideration of a sanction by the Department. The process for sanctioning clients, who do not engage with the JobPath activation process, is exactly the same as the process for clients who fail to engage with the Department’s own activation service.
