Results 301-320 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: .... Policy continues to focus on support for the long-term unemployed. For example, the Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy prioritises long-term unemployed people – most notably through the roll-out of JobPath to engage more systematically with this group; through targeted wage subsidies under JobsPlus; and through reserved places for long-term unemployed jobseekers on employment...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...know who the employer is, Turas Nua and Seetec do not get paid for the placement. They get paid anyway. They get paid if we do not know who the employer is. They get paid once somebody who is on JobPath gets a job. If that job happens to be in Outer Mongolia or up in Superquinn in Finglas, they get paid anyway. The reason that there is the continuation of the co-operation is that the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...experience. It might be a personality. We have to deal with those on a case by case basis. However, in the main, we are providing real opportunity and progression for those who are going through JobPath. I witnessed a young fella giving his adviser a Christmas present wrapped up - a poinsettia and a box of chocolates - the other day. Not to be smart or dismissive, one knows when...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: A public procurement process for the provision of the JobPath service was conducted in accordance with EU and Irish procurement rules. On 12 December 2013, my Department published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) and a request for tenders (RFT) notice on both the Government etenders website(www.etenders.gov.ie)and on the website of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). That...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (12 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person in question has participated on CE since 2011 and reached his six year lifetime limit in November 2017. He was then referred to JobPath for activation support and he is currently engaging with his JobPath provider who will support and assist him to look for a full time sustainable job. Participants with JobPath, who are all long-term unemployed jobseekers, receive intensive...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...for jobless households, for people who are qualified adults and do not appear on any register anywhere. Perhaps they are precluded from going on to community employment, CE, schemes, Tús or into JobPath. I will have a look at that. If they are, they should not be. I will see how we can fix it, but if we can fix it and if what the Senator has said is true, of which I have no doubt,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (7 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...a range of third parties for the purposes of transacting its business. These include, for example, my department’s branch offices, the Local Employment Service (LES) companies as well as the JobPath service providers such as Seetec. In the case of enquiries from public representatives, information on an individual client may be disclosed once it is established that the inquirer...

Other Questions: JobPath Programme (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: All persons in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment are required to be seeking full-time work, a condition which a person must satisfy at all times. Customers referred to JobPath who are also working part time will have all activities, including meetings with their personal adviser, scheduled around their work commitments. The JobPath contractors are required to be flexible in the...

Other Questions: JobPath Programme (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...programme, Seetech and Turas Nua are all providing activation programmes which are slightly different for different people, but there is no competition between the community employment programme and JobPath as activation measures. They are different streams of processes supported by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to try to get people into work.

Other Questions: JobPath Programme (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: That is why we choose very carefully who is sent to JobPath, the commmunity employment programme or Tús. With respect, each of them provides a different level of training or work experience to make sure people are job-ready. JobPath provides participants with a guaranteed service which includes not only one to one support and training but also a continual counselling and advice service...

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...of unemployment black spots identified in the census, it is important to recognise that the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection's services through the Intreo offices, jobs clubs, JobPath and other activation measures are focused on unemployed individuals as opposed to specific areas. This means that those areas where unemployed individuals are most concentrated get the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fire Service Staff (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...to recognise that retained firefighters are not always available for work. In all of the activation programmes, whether community employment, the Tús scheme, the rural social scheme, jobs clubs, JobPath or the Intreo services, there is a recognition that retained firefighters are not available for work on the days they are on call or in training. However, we cannot discount the days...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fire Service Staff (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...communities they serve. They are very well respected. We may engage in a cat-and-mouse exchange. I am not aware of any specific difficulties with retained firefighters with regard to INTREO or JobPath. Retained firefighters who are otherwise unemployed are entitled to a jobseeker's payment in respect of the days that they are engaged in firefighting and-or training, subject to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fire Service Staff (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...main a positive experience which result in people who are unemployed getting work or people who are under-employed getting more work. Those working in any of our activation processes in INTREO, JobPath, jobs clubs, JobsPlus or any other organisation which fulfils contracts for the Department are well aware of the conditions under which firefighters have to work and work around them. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: Ireland’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered by its Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies such as JobPath, Local Employment Service, LES, and job club providers. For 2017, as in 2016, my Department contracted with 22 private contractors for the provision of the LES in 25 locations and with 44 contractors for the provision of jobs...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: With JobPath the department has procured additional resources to enable it to provide a high quality case managed employment support service to people who are long term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed. The JobPath service was designed to augment and complement the Department’s existing employment service capacity, including that provided by LES.Prior...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 484 to 486, inclusive, and 490 together. As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service commenced operations in mid-2015, and reached full State-wide delivery of the service in July 2016. Some 65,000 Clients commenced their engagement with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...to engage with the Department’s activation services. The Social Welfare (Consolidated) Act 2005, as amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory. Clients for JobPath are chosen by means of a random selection process and protocols for selection currently preclude the selection of anyone who has already completed 52 weeks on the JobPath programme...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies. The companies are paid on the basis of performance and with the exception of the initial registration fee; payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment. The registration fee may be claimed once a jobseeker has developed a Personal Progression Plan...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...to long-term unemployed jobseekers, including some which the Departments supports through the Back To Education Allowance Scheme. Access to these courses is typically through a Case Officer or a JobPath Case Worker or LES Mediator. Courses may be agreed in the context of an agreed Personal Progression Plan, but at all times are chosen to best support the jobseeker secure full-time,...