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Other Questions: Garda Vetting of Personnel (17 Nov 2015) See 3 other results from this debate

Joan Burton: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation and it will help support people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid work. Following the completion of a public procurement process, two companies were selected to provide the JobPath service - Turas Nua and Seetec. Garda vetting is typically undertaken in respect of...

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

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a 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 commenced operations in mid-2015, and reached full State-wide delivery of the service in July 2016. Jobseekers who are selected for JobPath, are invited to attend an initial...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Regina Doherty: ...Service (PES) is managed by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Club providers. With JobPath the Department has procured additional resources to enable it to provide a high quality case managed employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (1 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...engage with the Department’s activation service irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those advisors employed by external contractors such as the JobPath providers. Currently, once a jobseeker is referred to JobPath, they are required to complete the requisite time with the service and will not be referred to a Work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Jun 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Regina Doherty: I am happy to inform the Deputy that I recently announced that jobseekers who are engaged with the JobPath service can, from 1st June, apply for CE and Tús placements while continuing to engage with JobPath. This will ensure that jobseekers can benefit from the job-seeking support of the JobPath service while also availing of a part-time work placement provided by CE or Tús. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware the primary goal of my Department's activation services including the JobPath service, is to move people from full-time and part-time unemployment to full-time and sustained employment. From 1st June all long term jobseekers who are currently engaged with the JobPath service and those who may be referred in future, have the option of applying for CE and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (23 Mar 2017) See 2 other results from this answer

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath service, which is provided for long term unemployed jobseekers only, is to assist them in finding sustainable full time paid employment by providing intensive individual support and assistance. The Community Employment schemes (CE) which provides part-time employment and training opportunities in local communities as a stepping stone back to employment for people on a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (14 Jun 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: Participants on JobPath receive intensive individual support to help them address barriers to employment and to assist them in finding jobs. Each person is assigned to a personal advisor who assesses a person’s skills, experience, challenges and work goals. A personal progression plan is developed for each individual and includes a schedule of activities, actions and job focused...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jan 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Burton: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation to support long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, have been contracted by the Department to deliver JobPath services. At the end of 2015 some 3,000 jobseekers had been referred to Seetec. It is not intended to publish the...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Rose Conway Walsh: I commend my colleagues, Deputies Denise Mitchell and John Brady, on producing a report on JobPath. Several months ago, I and Senator Ó Clochartaigh, along with a number of other Senators, raised in the House what can only be described as the swindle taking place in the JobPath scheme. I want the Minister to come to the House to answer some straightforward questions on the scheme. For...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017) See 7 other results from this debate

Bríd Smith: ..., a decision that is in the best interests of the individual, and the recommendation is overridden by a private company such as Seetec. This company receives remuneration for taking people onto JobPath. It has a vested interest in keeping people on JobPath because it gets a payment for it: a registration payment when it brings a person onto JobPath and four retrospective payments if they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1480 to 1484, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, 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 Ltd and Turas Nua Ltd. At present there are over...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: JobPath Programme (9 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part time and those at risk of becoming long-term unemployed, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. All jobseekers over one year on the Live Register are eligible for selection for the JobPath service and customers are chosen by means of a random selection...

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Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

Mr. John McKeon: JobPath providers do things slightly differently from how we do them. At its core, however, it is essentially the same process and JobPath is an extra resource capacity for the Department. It should be borne in mind that when the scheme was introduced, there were 455,000 people on the live register. Between the Department and local employment services, we had some 600...

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 Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...will be aware, my Department provides a range of activation supports and programmes catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. These include the JobPath service and programmes such as Community Employment (CE). The JobPath service is provided for jobseekers and the period of engagement with the service for any individual is typically 52...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, 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 Ltd and Turas Nua Ltd. For the purposes of the JobPath service all long-term unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: JobPath Data (23 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...Brexit and the potential - God forbid - for losing 40,000 or 50,000 jobs, the Department triggered an extension to the provisions of the existing contract and agreement was reached with the JobPath providers to extend the existing contracts by one year, with referrals on that JobPath programme up until 2020. It is not a renewal of the JobPath contracts but an execution of the extension...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Dec 2016) See 4 other results from this answer

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 333 to 335, inclusive, together. As the deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed (over 12 months) and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. JobPath supplements the internal case management capacity of my Department's Intreo...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017) See 2 other results from this answer

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath service, which is provided for jobseekers only, is to assist them in finding sustainable full time paid employment. Each person referred to the JobPath service is allocated a personal advisor who provides intensive individual support and assistance. When a jobseeker with JobPath finds employment, they will be supported by the JobPath Company for at least the first 13...