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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by clients of Turas Nua who work on a part-time basis (details supplied); if one such case will be examined; and if issues relative to the case will be resolved. [4454/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3822/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (29 Jan 2019)

John Brady: 566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of JobPath participants who have taken up another scheme (details supplied) as permitted since June 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4108/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Jan 2019)

John Brady: 569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to research carried out by Waterford Institute of Technology into JobPath following interviews with JobPath participants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4111/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (29 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department oversees the procurement for JobPath , the Local Employment Services (LES) and Jobs Clubs.The LES and Job Clubs are currently on annual contracts which are reviewed on an ongoing basis. The contracts for JobPath are due to expire at end-2019, with some contractual provisions for extension, although this is not envisaged at this point. In this context, my Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (22 Jan 2019)

John Brady: 655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the sanction rates and penalties in place for failure to engage with the JobPath scheme by county in tabular form. [2931/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...taken within it. The details given include age and the number and length of absences. We will note and publish the correspondence. Copies of the reports on the back to education allowance and JobPath are also available. The Department also deals with false self-employment cases. There is a detailed chart showing the savings achieved in that area as a result of employer inspections. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: JobPath Programme: Discussion (17 Jan 2019)

JobPath Programme: Discussion

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (15 Jan 2019)

John Brady: 1117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for JobPath once the current contract expires at the end of 2019; if she will re-tender for the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1727/19]

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....