Results 1-20 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (3 Jun 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...to take Questions Nos. 1115 and 1116 together. The Public Employment Service (PES) is delivered through Intreo and is supported through contracted external services delivered under the JobPath, the Local Employment Services, Job Clubs and the Employability services. In December 2019, after an open and transparent procurement process, my Department engaged external...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...we will have over the next couple of months. I probably will not be the person making the policy on how we activate people who will not go back to work. I can only give some solace in saying that JobPath only looks after people who are on the live register longer than 12 months. We hope that anybody who has lost a job or will lose a job in the next couple of weeks can be retrained and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (20 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...Employment Services €123,318 (includes expenditure in 2019) Consult Hyperion Data Privacy Impact Assessment €44,433 Behaviour and Attitudes Jobseeker and JobPath Customer Satisfaction Survey €50,627 ESRI Measurement and Analysis of Household Income and Living Conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (20 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...Finance Consultancy services in relation to Contracted  Public Employment Services €123,318 (includes expenditure in 2020) Consult Hyperion Data Privacy Impact Assessments €128,192 INOU Pathways to Work Consultation €7,000 Research Matters Jobseeker and JobPath...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (13 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: In 2019, my Department activated the extension provisions within the existing contracts of both JobPath providers that will enable referrals to the JobPath service until end-2020. My Department is currently reviewing all contracted public employment services. This review is being undertaken with the aim of designing and introducing a comprehensive model that is fit for purpose for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (13 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a part of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s activation service the key objective of which is to assist jobseekers of all skills and abilities to secure full-time sustainable employment. All Jobseekers on the Live Register must be capable of; available for and actively seeking full time employment, they are also required to engage with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (17 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...on a jobseeker's payment and are on the Live Register.  For those jobseekers up to the age of 62 they are required to engage with the Department’s activation services, including those delivered through JobPath. In the case of the individual concerned, as they are under 62 years of age they are therefore required to engage with these services. JobPath provides intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Jobseekers engaged with the JobPath service receive intensive individual support to help overcome barriers to employment and to find jobs. Each person is assigned a Personal Advisor who assesses their skills, experience, challenges and work goals and agrees a Personal Progression Plan (PPP) that includes a schedule of activities, including relevant training and educational programmes to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service which supports jobseekers to secure and sustain full-time paid employment.  Following the completion of a rigorous public procurement process, two companies were selected to provide the JobPath service - Turas Nua and Seetec. The terms of the contracts signed with the companies provide for two consecutive phases: phase one entailed four...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has executed the extension provisions in the existing contracts of both JobPath providers that will enable referrals to the JobPath service until end 2020.  This decision was made partly in relation to the uncertainty caused by the Brexit process and its potential implications for the Irish labour market.  This uncertainty remains and it was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers, was to run for at least six years comprising two consecutive phases: phase one entailed four years of client referrals, while phase two entailed a ‘run off’ period during which time no additional clients were to be referred.  The contract includes an option to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua. Information is shared with these contractors to enable them to provide employment services on behalf of the Department. The purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Dec 2019)

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 with the exception of the initial registration fee; payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment. Total fees payable per client comprise of an initial Registration fee payable on completion of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...related experience. Jobseekers are asked to sign the PPP as an indication of their agreement to carry out the activation measures contained in the document. My Department will pay an initial registration fee to a JobPath provider when the customer has engaged with the service. A completed PPP is taken as evidence of engagement, a customer signature is not a requirement as evidence of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The breakdown of the original estimates was: An Post agency fees, €31 million; the medical certificates, as originally anticipated, €23.7 million; JobPath, €57.5 million; our nurses, €270,000; and our branch managers, €16 million. The actual outturns were as follows. An Post agency fees, as opposed to €31.03 million, were €30.1 million. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (26 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a case management service that provides employment counselling and advice to long-term unemployed jobseekers with a view to improving their prospects of securing sustained full-time employment. The service is provided to help and support clients to identify and pursue suitable job opportunities themselves with the help of a Personal Adviser. Support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (26 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 469 to 473, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, the primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. Between July 2015 and October 2019, some 247,296 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service. Of this number, 52% were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (26 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...legal advice to the effect that renewing the LES and Job Clubs contracts annually, without any movement towards competitive procurement, is no longer sustainable. This, combined with the closure of the JobPath contracts to new referrals at the end of 2020, provides my Department with the opportunity to review all contracted public employment services. The aim is to design and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (19 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 620 and 621 together. JobPath is an employment activation service which supports jobseekers to secure and sustain full-time paid employment.  Following the completion of a rigorous public procurement process, two companies were selected to provide the JobPath service - Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Business Technology Centre Limited.  Contracts were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers, was to run for at least six years comprising two consecutive phases: phase one entailed four years of client referrals, while phase two entailed a ‘run off’ period during which time no additional clients were to be referred.  The contract includes an option to...