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

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service. For the purposes of the JobPath service all long-term unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register, aged...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The table shows the expenditure on JobPath, Tús, Rural Social Scheme and Community Employment schemes in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018 in tabular form. - 2015 Outturn 2016 Outturn 2017 Outturn (Provisional) 2018 YTD end Feb 2018 JobPath €1.24m €25.19m €57.42m €12.47m Community Employment €364.98m €356.34m €350.48m...

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

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service was launched in 2015 on a ‘rolling basis’ with referral numbers gradually increasing over time. There are two phases to the service. During the first phase, of 12 months duration, a personal advisor (PA) provides practical...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Following the publication in April 2017 of my Department’s report entitled ‘An Analysis of the Community Employment Programme’, the Government approved a number of changes to the terms and conditions around participation on Community Employment (CE). The main purpose of these changes was to broaden the availability of CE to a greater number of people on the live...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. My department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 22 November 2016. It is a condition for receipt of CA that every...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I thank members for the invitation to be meet the committee to discuss the Revised Estimates for my Department. Department officials have provided detailed briefing material for the use of the committee at this meeting, which includes comprehensive financial and recipient data. This briefing also provides updates on the Department’s performance on its output targets for 2017. ...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith who is worse than I am. If I had my way, the figure would be 41%, but it is 36%. I will challenge every single year to try to get more in order to be able to do some of the stuff we want to do collectively. Nonetheless, there is a difference between our budget and those of many other European countires. As such, we are not necessarily comparing like with...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: We would then be discriminating against all others who were adjudicated on under the 2012 legislation. Effectively, what we are doing is bringing forward a new law to recognise that people were outside the workforce for a variety of reasons. In most cases, we know that it was women who were rearing their families. We need to be cognisant of the fact that they were not in the system....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I cannot do it. If we were to introduce a new law today, we would not be able to charge somebody under it for something they did last year. Unfortunately, that is the way it is. On the income disregards for lone parent families, the Deputy is right that the cost of living has gone up. I would have increased it by more if we had more money. I have every intention of continuing to do so...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is the Kremlin. People under the 12-month threshold will have the opportunity to join this Youth Guarantee scheme or avail of any of the other training options. That is what we are trying to get-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Is that me?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Mine is in silent mode.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: That is my thinking on this matter, although the Deputy thinks differently.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is because I do not want them to be on the dole.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: No. They are being given an opportunity to take back-to-education courses, upskill further, become carers and provide employment and training facilities and options for themselves, if money is an issue. We have an ambition to get young people off jobseeker's payments and not welfare dependent. We want them to upskill, train and participate in the workforce. That is what they also want....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: We need to revert on the matter.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Where do I start? I am surprised that the Deputy is surprised by what he considers to have been an announcement today. It was not an announcement. It was made clear in the Dáil in January that I would introduce new legislation and what that new legislation would do. That is what the couple of hundred people outside the gates were told. In the correspondence I have received from most...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I will send them to the Chairman in the next couple of days. To reply to the question on working age and the possibility of giving everyone under 25 years of age an increase to the level of the full unemployment payment made to everyone aged over 25 years, I will revert to the Deputy on the issue in the next couple of days. I beg the committee's pardon, I have the information. The cost...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Some of the information and statements made by Deputy Brady are factually incorrect with regard to branch managers. I do not mean to be facetious when I respond to the Deputy. I am unsure who has told Deputy Brady that the workload has increased, but it has actually drastically decreased in recent years because our jobseekers have drastically decreased. The workload of our branch managers...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

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