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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Claire Kerrane: ...there will now be a focus on the likes of CE, Tús, and community-based and local employment service, LES, schemes in the community and not for profit, which are really important. What will this mean for JobPath and whether referrals will end this year? They were supposed to end at the end of last year but that was brought forward and extended by 12 months. Will that now end?...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Éamon Ó Cuív: ...being put forward to the CE companies that have vacancies and that badly need the workers but cannot get them because the names are not being put forward. I understand that the reason for that relates to JobPath. I have never favoured JobPath as an approach. I am very wary of privatising and monetising data because it is a game of just calling everyone in and getting paid. If the...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Heather Humphreys: ...them. Discussions are ongoing between my Department and his. We hope that we will be able to find a resolution to this long-running issue and are working hard on that. I take the Deputies' concerns about JobPath on board. The OECD has worked with my Department to measure the effectiveness of JobPath. The findings, which were published last year, indicated that weekly earnings for...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Claire Kerrane: ...would be at work, either as self-employed or otherwise? I assume that her Department has examined the cost. Does she have the figures? It took us two years to find out the fees relating to JobPath. We got them through the Committee of Public Accounts. It is an enormous cost to the taxpayer. One need not discuss how people are treated or so on if one just looks at the figures -...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Éamon Ó Cuív: .... Will the Minister make the OECD report available to us? I would be interested in seeing the methodology that the OECD used to work out the magic figure of 17%. I have a funny feeling that it was working on JobPath's reports, and what would they tell someone other than it pays very well, given that the contractors' livelihoods depending on giving a good answer? From my experience on...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Heather Humphreys: ...have other income. We can go through this again and I am happy to hear and look at the suggestions of the committee members. I know what they are saying and I have seen it myself. To go back to JobPath, there are 201,000 people on the live register and a further 340,000 people are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment. The economic impact of the pandemic has certainly...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Denis Naughten: Is everyone happy with No. 5? We are not going to dwell on JobPath. If we get the report back, we can come back to it again.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020) Heather Humphreys: To date, more than 64,000 jobseekers have commenced employment during their engagement period with JobPath.