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Updated 3.28pm
EDUCATION MINISTER JAN O’Sullivan has said she will look at the issue of schools making use of the JobBridge scheme to fill essential roles.
It follows the publication of data from the Department of Social Protection, which oversees JobBridge, showing that primary schools are seeking to fill 56 Special Needs Assistant roles through the scheme.
The ads for the positions state that candidates will gain experience working with children with special educational needs, “feeding children at risk” and other areas.
“It’s certainly something I will be examining to see on what basis schools are hiring people through JobBridge,” O’Sullivan told reporters at an event in Dublin today.
She added:
I’m relatively new in this job and I haven’t had an opportunity as yet to see why schools are using JobBridge.
“In terms of the Department of Education, we can’t tell schools that they can’t hire in this way,” O’Sullivan said.
“It’s really a matter for individual schools to make these decisions.
“We do employ a huge number of SNAs in the school system directly through the Department as well.”
The Minister pointed out that the JobBridge scheme was closely monitored by the Department of Social Protection, and noted that ads for certain positions had been disallowed in the past.
The scheme should “not be about job replacement”, O’Sullivan said. “It should be about providing an opportunity to get some experience.”
Speaking to reporters in Dublin this afternoon, Tánaiste and Social Protection Minister Joan Burton, who set up JobBridge, said it was a matter for schools as to how they use the scheme.
“Schools obviously are governed by their boards and it’s a matter for each individual school how they would decide whether or not they want to use JobBridge,” she said.
However, Burton questioned whether schools employing cleaners on the scheme was “the best use” of it. She said any concerns about inappropriate use of JobBridge should be raised with its monitoring group.
- additional reporting from Hugh O’Connell
First published 1.23pm
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If you’re a normal person you can mess up your entire life with some small-time laundering, but if you’ve in the Golden Circle you can gut the whole nation walk away smiling.
Stop telling these kids they have to work hard to get on top, they know its not true.
Right now a lot of young people feel they have no future already. House prices, the mounting debt the country is getting into and the lack of proper social skills in the correct environments.
@Full Circle: yeah 12 year old girls are really worried about that and not buying clothes
@Craic_a_tower: Zoomers are very much occupied with the fact they hace no future, actually. Can’t ignore it you see
@Craic_a_tower: Zoomers are very occupied with the fact they have no future – can’t ignore it
@Dylan Byrne: anybody labelling a whole generation with a lazy name has no concept of the real world. People have not changed that much. The 80s were not exactly a great future outlook no jobs and impending nuclear war. We survived and weren’t that forward looking at 12-16 which seems to be the target group
@Craic_a_tower: Anybody who lazily assumes teenage girls have no concerns except clothes shopping during a Pandemic has no concept of the real world. Go talk to aome Zoomers out there in the real world, the world is not the same as when you were growing up. Obviously.
My parents grew up working class in the 80s, nobody had any money but everyone was a hell of a lot happier. My parents feel so sick I could never have the teen years/early adulthood they did, even though they had nothing. Times have changed.
@Dylan Byrne: your parents did but you didn’t. I did so maybe my real world experience of the time beats your memory of what your parents told you. The outlook in the 80s was very grim and unemployment was huge. In school they would tell us when we leave Ireland to remember to buy Irish products to help the country.
Easy money is appealing and not understanding the consequences is as tempting to the immature mind. There are always gloomy teenagers like yourself. I was a Goth so I get the enjoyment of wallowing.
@Craic_a_tower: You really don’t get it do you? Zoomers KNOW they have no future, which is a far stretch from just having a grim outlook.
The world has been plundered since your time. They aren’t growing up in the same society as you did, reducing it down to ‘teenagers bein moody’ misses the point
As each day passes the future looks darker and darker, and the past just looks so much brighter.
@Dylan Byrne: just eat a Xanax sandwich
@Charmaine ☘ Irish: why would you say that? Is that how you cope? What he’s saying isn’t a lie.
@Dylan Byrne: you can’t get it because you don’t know what the 80s was like but think you do. We really didn’t see a future then either. I can relate to how you feel because that is how people felt then. You telling me things were better in a time you didn’t experience that I lived in is ridiculous. You have no idea the quality of life is so much better now. AIDS and nuclear war were huge fears. The thought of being able to live in Ireland was a dream for many. You simply don’t have the experience while I don’t experience the world as you do now I am quite familiar with human nature. There is nothing unusual going on and you aren’t unique in your view for anybody of your age looking at the future
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists had this to say on the subject,
“Big Banks shift money for people they can’t identify and in many cases fail to report suspect transactions until years after the fact”
Banks named in the ICIJ report included JPMorgan, HSBC Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank and New York Mellon.
And we’re talking trillons.
As far as I can find out none of the bank executives involved have been jailed.
But hey. let’s get those kids. Jail them, brand them for life and take away their ability to function normally in society. That will teach them about law and justice.
The obvious contradiction in that story weakens the argument. In one part the article states that people who are used as mules don’t gain financially from it while further down it advises parents to watch for their children spending extra money on clothes and technology etc. What extra money? Where did it come from if they didn’t get paid for being used and exploited ?
They know exactly what they’re doing. Make an example of a few is the only way.
That money was just resting on my account.
Jail them.
Jail them
@john s: we heard you the 1st time.
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