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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: I did.

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 will clarify that before I continue. Is Deputy Brady referring specifically to any future tender for a JobPath-type activity? Is that what he means regarding the €20 million?

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 is fine. I am sorry, I understand now.

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 will start with SICAP. It was an open competition with public tender. When I mentioned lessons could be learned from it, I meant in the structure of the tender, the lot size and the awarding criteria. It was an interesting process and we have learned from that. We will take cognisance of those lessons when we are doing our own tendering process. The only advice I get as a Cabinet...

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 am not sure that I can come back to the committee in the middle of the tender design process but I hear the Chairman loud and clear.

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.