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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Yes..

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The €20 million did not form any part of the SICAP tendering process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: There was a specific reason that sum was in that tendering process. The Deputy asked me whether it will form part of all tender processes in the future. I cannot say whether it will form part of all tender process in the future but I cannot rule out that it will form part of some of them. The payment-by-result model, which is the one the Deputy fears most-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: I have already told the Deputy that we have not designed the tender process because we have not designed the services requirement. He wants to put the cart before the horse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy wants me to answer whether we have designed and have specific recommendations or conditions in a tender when we do not know what we are tendering for. I will answer his specific question on the payment-by-result model. The model has its own merits but it is only one model. Based on the range of people we need to serve, we need many models. I do not know how many times I have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: I know exactly where the Senator is going with her comment. She is now talking about my Department catering for people who are not yet unemployed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: We have enough to do providing services to unemployed people without providing services to people in pre-unemployment. We need to empower people who are in precarious or vulnerable situations with stronger legislation, as we have done with the enactment of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, which commenced in March. I would be open to introducing more strenuous legislation to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Maybe we can have a conversation about that after we get this level of services out of the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is genuinely moving then into the next level. To be honest, the people on whom I need to concentrate in the very near future are those in jobless households.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: People who are not registered anywhere, other than as independent qualified adults, potentially have a valuable contribution to make in the social economy or the real economy but have never been offered supports. We often hear from women that they have never been asked. Most of them are already working in the social economy, for example, in volunteering agencies in towns and villages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Senator is touching on a model with regard to the local employment service and outcomes. We do not currently model the service on outcomes, but I think we should. When I refer to outcomes, I do not mean that there should be a target of getting jobs for a certain number of people. I envisage that the wraparound services on offer from our local employment services in the future will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: It should not be a performance outcome because what might be a successful outcome for me might be a different measure or metric of a successful outcome for someone else. We need to be cognisant of all of those metrics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: That will be no problem.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (9 Apr 2019)

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 child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. If a person is in receipt of another social welfare payment in their own right (other than unemployment payments or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (9 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 575 and 578 together. The issue of extending additional social insurance benefits to the self-employed paying class S PRSI was considered in the Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance fund (SIF) as at 31 December 2015, which was published on 18 October 2017. The review, required by legislation, was carried out by independent consultants, KPMG. It examines...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Live Register Data (9 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: There are number of contributory factors leading to the fall in the number of persons on the Live Register in County Kildare since January 2018.  By way of background and context, the live register in Kildare has fallen from a total of 9,983 in January 2018, to a total of 8,095 in January 2019 – that is a decrease of 19%.  Looking across Kildare, the decrease in live register...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (9 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since late September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of approximately 90,000 pensioners, born on or after 1 September 1946, who have a reduced rate State pension contributory entitlement based on post Budget 2012 rate-bands.  These payments are being reviewed under a new Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pension calculation which includes provision...