Results 341-360 of 986 for jobpath

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Regina Doherty: ...so little ambition for people who are only in their mid-fifties. This morning at the Committee of Public Accounts the Government was being lashed because we are sending people for a second year on JobPath, yet some people are quite happy, week in, week out, to beg and plead for an extra six, seven, eight and nine years on CE schemes. Now the Deputy wants 12 years. These are activation...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Vote 37 - Social Protection Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed 2017... (29 Nov 2018)

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Vote 37 - Social Protection Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (29 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of participants in the JobPath scheme that have been referred back to the scheme for a second time. [49919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the JobPath providers to establish pilot schemes specific to part-time workers or aimed at other groups of jobseekers; if the JobPath providers have the remit to establish such schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49368/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures in place in circumstances in which a person that is engaged with a JobPath provider moves to another county before completing their time on the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...services provided by my Department is to enable persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment who are also in part time employment to move to full-time employment with a sustainable income. JobPath provides an intensive personal service which focuses on the skills and experience of each person. In the case of clients already in part-time employment this would, in the first instance,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

David Cullinane: This is a very good example of something we were discussing last week. We will try to ask an Accounting Officer questions on many different issues. I am thinking about JobPath and some of the others. We had those officials in previously and we did not get information. They said they were not in a position to give us information. This is one of those meetings where we need to signal well...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (15 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...YESS will be eligible to avail of the Training Support Grant (TSG) of up to €500 on two occasions during a 12 month period where deemed necessary. This will also apply to jobseekers who are engaged with JobPath and who go on to pursue a YESS placement. The scheme will provide a supportive structure for participants, including case officer support for both placement hosts and...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018) See 4 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...that, but I hope it is not just tightened up and left in a way that is impossible to get to. Deputy Ó Cuív referred to employing people. I would say that 99.9% of employers do not phone JobPath. They try to suss out someone in a local area who is fit to do a job and they employ that person. That is not the way it works in the SME sector or in small businesses around the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

.... There are still 240,000 people on the live register and 17 million unemployed in the EU27. The latter are reachable through the EURES service, but employers make insufficient use of it. The JobPath programme is aimed at Irish residents who are long-term unemployed. The Government has paid out more that €100 million in the last two years to the two JobPath contractors, Seetec...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018) See 7 other results from this debate

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of our more successful activation services. It supports the long-term unemployed in securing and sustaining full-time paid employment. Jobseekers are referred to the service by means of a selection process. A person who has previously completed a year with JobPath is referred back to an Intreo case officer. This is in-house, so to speak. If after six months, he or she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: .... All CE participants age 55 and over can avail of 3 consecutive years on a CE scheme. Since 1st June, I am also facilitating persons to take up a placement on CE or Tús while also attending their JobPath provider. The annual budget provided to CE schemes includes an amount to cover consumable services and materials, including insurance, necessary for the effective operation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of JobPath attendees that gained work after completing the course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46625/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (13 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for Turas Nua and Seetec in view of the improvement in the number of persons at work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46813/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the south east to date who have found employment through the JobPath service; the number of persons in the south east who have returned to claim social welfare payments having previously taken up employment through the JobPath service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46855/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...employment. All CE participants age 55 and over can avail of 3 consecutive years on a CE scheme. Since 1st June, I am also facilitating persons to take up a placement on CE or Tús while also attending their JobPath provider. Participants over age 62 are allowed to participate on a continuous basis up to the State Pension age on the CE Service Support Stream (SSS), subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (13 Nov 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1149 of 6 November 2018, the date on which the evaluations of JobPath, JobsPlus and JobsPlus youth began; the date on which the evaluations will be completed; and if the evaluations will be made available upon completion. [47036/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (6 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be exempted from the requirement of regularly reporting to Turas Nua; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons engaged on JobPath that have taken up places on community employment schemes, the rural social scheme or Tús since June 2018. [45043/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: In this case my Department was notified that the person concerned was not engaging with the JobPath service. Regretfully, the person concerned did not initially respond to requests to attend the Navan Road Intreo Centre and this led to the suspension of his Jobseekers payment on the 18/10/18. However, on the 26/10/18, following a discussion with the person concerned, Intreo Centre staff...