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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2019 (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...genuinely positive. For me, the single biggest driver and the fastest route out of poverty for a person or family is a job. That is the reason I fight with Deputy John Brady week in and week over JobPath-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Regina Doherty: -----but the Deputy raised JobPath. The only people who are charged a penalty relating to JobPath are those who do not show up and engage with the programme that they have signed up for. In exactly the same way, anybody who engages with the live register through our Intreo offices who does not show up and present himself or herself as being available for work does not qualify for this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

JobPath Programme

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the contracts with JobPath providers will be extended; the date on which the current contracts expire; if a value for money study will be commissioned into the service provided by both companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53449/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase in sanctions and penalties taken against jobseekers is due to the interaction of the JobPath providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53448/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (19 Dec 2018)

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

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (19 Dec 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 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 availability of places on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...programmes/workplace based interventions such as Community Employment and Tús; or in subsidies to employers, through JobsPlus Youth. Long-term unemployed jobseekers under-25 are also referred to JobPath, a contracted, payment-by-results employment services that provides additional resources and supports to the long-term unemployed. The table below displays the number of new...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...their exact entitlements and to get them on their social welfare payment immediately, but also to look at their skills, work with the Intreo offices and local jobs organisations and liaise with JobPath people to see what positions are available locally to try to get people back to work as quickly as possible. I will include the Deputy in correspondence on the matter this week.

Seanad: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...cost to the State. It would simply allow the flexibility for an authentic engagement between case workers and lone parents, who are predominantly women, to ensure they do not find themselves on JobPath being told they have to consider a list of three full-time jobs when they know they cannot. Even since we did our report, we have had very strong testimony on other issues. People talked...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (18 Dec 2018)

John Brady: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 11 December 2018, the number of persons to date who have gained employment through the JobPath service; the number who have returned to claim social welfare payments having previously taken up employment through the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Topical Issue Matters (12 Dec 2018)

Declan Breathnach: ...11) Deputy Aindrias Moynihan - the need to make it safer for people getting on and off the N22 between Macroom and Ballincollig; and (12) Deputy John Brady - to discuss the newly released costs associated with the JobPath scheme. The matters raised by Deputies Joan Collins, Michael Fitzmaurice and Mattie McGrath, Brendan Smith and Pat Deering have been selected for discussion.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

John Brady: The programme for Government commits to developing work activation, social protection and further education services to ensure a seamless service for jobseekers. I want to raise the issue of JobPath and its privatisation through the two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec. After years of requests, we have finally got damning statistics relating to the privatisation of that service. The figures...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Thomas Pringle: As the Taoiseach knows, 39,603 jobseekers were referred to JobPath in the period from July 2015 to June 2016. In those two years, 8,340 people gained employment, a success rate of 25%. Those who gained full-time employment amounted to 6,111 people or 18% of the total figure, while those who gained part-time employment made up 4% of the total. When one looks closely and measures the chances...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Dec 2018)

Peter Burke: 533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been activated to work through the JobPath programme since its foundation, by county, in tabular form. [51816/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of part-time or underemployed workers that have been referred to JobPath since its introduction. [51875/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (11 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: .... Number of Activation Clients notified as being in employment of 30+ hours per week. Number of Activation ‘other’ clients notified as being in employment of 30+ hours per week 2016 7,458* 1,153 2017 4,923* 991 To date 2018 4,800* 973 *Unlike JobPath there is no requirement for the client to be 'off benefit' in order to qualify as a placement.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (11 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...jobs being created by economic recovery. The strategy includes some additional actions, which are ongoing or have been completed, in relation to addressing long-term and youth unemployment: - the roll out of JobPath to engage more systematically with this group; the JobPath service has provided activation support to over 180,000 long term jobseekers since its inception in 2015....

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (5 Dec 2018)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...in the NPWS; (13) Deputy John Curran - the need to address funding issues for drugs and alcohol task forces; (14) Deputy John Brady - to discuss the newly released costs associated with the JobPath scheme; (15) Deputy Clare Daly - to discuss overcrowding and the use of mattresses on floors as sleeping accommodation in the State’s prisons; (16) Deputy Martin Ferris - the future of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) See 9 other results from this debate

Regina Doherty: ...than anticipated. Our spend with An Post went up this year, so I hope that will be reflected in next year's figures. The figure for the medical certificates is €22,250,000. The figure for JobPath was estimated at €48,800,000, and the Revised Supplementary Estimate is €71,698,000, which is the increase of €22,895,000. Therein lies the increase in that one....