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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: All labour activation referrals, including JobPath, were suspended in March 2020 in accordance with public health guidelines. Engagement continued during this period by phone, email and other remote means, where possible. Referrals to contracted public employment services gradually recommenced from mid-June.  The pause in referrals to JobPath from March to June 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (9 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath service providers are paid on the basis of performance and with the exception of the initial registration fee, payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment.  The overall cost of JobPath will be determined by the number of people who participate in the programme and the number who get sustainable jobs. The Department does not publish the individual...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, customers of my Department who are engaged with the JobPath service have, from 1st June 2018, the option of taking up a placement on CE and Tús while continuing to engage with the JobPath service. This change ensures that jobseekers can benefit from the job-seeking support of the JobPath service while also availing of a part-time work placement provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 733 to 736, inclusive, together. JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Two companies - Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited have been contracted to provide the service on behalf of my Department. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (17 Jan 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 549 and 569 together. JobPath is an approach to the provision of employment services to jobseekers that are long-term unemployed. While engaging with the JobPath service participants are provided with a range of supports based on an assessment of individual needs which may include reasonable costs for travel and childcare. The JobPath providers will also...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Nov 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a new approach to the provision of employment services to jobseekers that are long term unemployed. While engaging with the JobPath service participants are provided with a range of supports based on an assessment of individual needs, which may include reasonable travel costs and childcare. On a case by case basis, the JobPath providers will pay for items such as personal...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (13 Jan 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: 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. The roll-out of JobPath began last July on a soft launch basis in Bray and Longford. At the end of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Employment Service (23 Nov 2016)

Michael Creed: .... Ireland’s public employment service is managed by the Department of Social Protection and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, namely, the JobPath companies, the local employment service, LES, and Jobs Clubs. The JobPath service is a new approach to the provision of employment supports to jobseekers who are long-term...

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

Regina Doherty: JobPath is designed to support people who are long term unemployed to obtain and sustain employment in the open labour market. The JobPath companies have no role in selection of jobseekers for referral to the service. My Department selects clients for the JobPath service by means of a random selection process and protocols for selection currently preclude the selection of anyone who has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (14 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...on the design and operation of contracted public employment services. In 2019 my Department commissioned an independent review of the provision of employment advisory services, including JobPath, Local Employment Services and Job Clubs.  This review conducted by the Institute of Employment Studies and Social Finance, reviewed the provision of services and made recommendations for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (23 Jun 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Joan Burton: JobPath is the Government’s new labour market activation service aimed specifically at long-term unemployed jobseekers and those new jobseekers most distant from the labour market, with the primary objective of assisting such persons to secure sustained full-time paid employment. JobPath will be delivered by two companies – Seetec Limited and Turas Nua Limited. JobPath will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...is very aware of the need to have adequate data protection policies, procedures and structures in place in line with current data protection legislation. My Department’s contracts with the JobPath providers are in compliance with all relevant legislation and any information shared is contractually based and necessary to provide a service. All contracts in place are governed by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: 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 this year 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 Community Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 273 to 279, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is a new approach to employment activation designed 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 the JobPath...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40 to 43, inclusive, together. 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. Jobseekers, who are selected for JobPath, are invited to attend an initial information session at which the jobseekers’ rights and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (25 Jan 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service for people who are long-term unemployed (LTU) and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Clients are randomly selected for participation and the protocols for selection currently preclude the selection of anyone who has already completed JobPath within the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018)

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. Jobseekers retain their jobseeker's payment and remain on the Live Register while engaged with JobPath unless they are placed in employment. Jobseekers may be supported through the service for up to 30...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (17 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. All decisions regarding a person’s welfare entitlements while on JobPath will be taken only by Departmental officials and not by the JobPath companies. The JobPath companies may neither...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Could the Minister provide some clarity on JobPath? A constituent came to my office in recent weeks who is on JobPath. He has been offered three or four jobs which he could not avail of as he does not have a safe pass certificate as the jobs were on construction sites. When he went to JobPath he was told to go to the social welfare office but when he went to the social welfare office he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (18 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service, the Local Employment Service, Job Clubs, Tús and Community Employment (CE). The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and...