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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (8 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: 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 September 2019, some 241,346 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service. Of this number, 52% were unemployed for over three years. This group, in particular, faces significant barriers when...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those advisers 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 Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (24 Nov 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Joan Burton: Briefings on JobPath were provided by Department officials to Oireachtas members on 16 July 2015 and 29 September 2015 and copies of the briefing material were provided to all members. 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 full-time, paid...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies. Referrals to the JobPath service ceased in June 2022 and the service is now in a run-off phase. Research into JobPath, including by the OECD, indicates that the programme led to positive employment and earnings outcomes across a variety of hard-to-reach groups. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...are also required to engage with the Department’s activation services whether the service is provided internally by an Intreo case officer or externally by one of the contracted providers e.g. JobPath providers and Local Employment Service providers. The Social Welfare (Consolidated) Act 2005, as amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory. The...

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

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 218 and 219 together. As the Deputy will be aware the JobPath activation service is to help long term unemployed jobseekers to find sustainable full time work. For the purposes of the departments activation services all long-term unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register, aged between 18 and 61 years old inclusive, are categorised into groups based...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Participants (24 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. The EmployAbility Service is an employment and recruitment service to assist people with a disability to secure and maintain a job in the open labour market. Only clients in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (24 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The State’s employment activation service is delivered directly by the Department’s Intreo service and under contract arrangements by the JobPath service, the Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Clubs. JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and...

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: Employment Support Services (11 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: To date the total amount paid to those providing the JobPath service is €259.6m. The yearly spend on JobPath is provided in the following table. Year Expenditure 2015 €1.2m 2016 €25.2m 2017 €57.4m 2018 €71.7m 2019 ...

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Places (31 May 2017)

John Brady: At this stage, over 97,000 people have been transferred to JobPath and the private companies Turas Nua and Seetec. Community employment schemes across the State are in serious trouble not just because of the creation of JobPath but also because the lack of funding has thrown open a series of other challenges for community employment schemes. It is not just the low unemployment rates that...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 9, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on the effectiveness of the JobPath scheme 18. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the effectiveness of the JobPath scheme and the impact it is having on the sustainability of other job activation schemes and that the report shall be presented...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment.  Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver the service.  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...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (3 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...jobseekers to secure and sustain employment, while reducing welfare costs and enhancing social value to a society. In October, I announced that my Department agreed an extension with both JobPath contractors, as well as extending the contracts of other contracted employment service providers - the local employment services and job clubs - into 2021. These extensions are required to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of a range of activation supports, including schemes such as Community Employment (CE) and Tús, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Referral to JobPath is by random selection and is generally for a 52-week period. Jobseekers who are already participating with the JobPath service will not be referred to Tús as they can only participate with one activation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (4 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The customer was referred to the Job Club service on 12thJune 2017 and attended in September 2017. The customer was also referred to the JobPath service on 17thJune 2017, and agreed a personal progression plan with the JobPath provider on 6thJuly 2017. Having been referred to JobPath which provides an intensive 12 month programme of support for the Long Term Unemployed the customer’s...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

John Brady: More than €202 million has been given to the private companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, to roll out what can only be described as the failed JobPath programme. To date, more than 232,000 citizens have been referred to JobPath, some of them for the fourth year in succession. I refer to "failed" JobPath because only 6%, or approximately 15,000, of those people have been sustained in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation initiative designed to support long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment or self-employment. The roll-out of JobPath began in 2015 and to date 160,000 participants have entered JobPath since it was first initialised. All Jobseekers on the live register must be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...advisor/case management service is provided directly by the Department's own staff and also by staff employed in contracted service providers - including the Local Employment Service (LES) and JobPath providers. In general, the Department's own case officers engage with people who are short term unemployed while those who are more distant from the labour market, including long term...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (12 Apr 2017)

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. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted to deliver the service. While engaging with the JobPath service, participants are provided with a range of...