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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Participants of JobPath do not have access to the Training Support Grant (TSG) provided by the Department.  However, the JobPath companies will on a case by case basis provide similar funding. JobPath providers have their own discretionary funds available to pay for training or other interventions; the decision to approve or reject any request for funding is solely at the discretion...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (28 Jun 2016) See 2 other results from this answer

Leo Varadkar: ..., the Department does not, in general, facilitate or encourage jobseekers to transfer from or leave one activation support scheme to take up a place on another activation support scheme. However JobPath participants may apply to participate on other schemes and can, subject to assessment by a case officer, commence on other schemes following completion of their JobPath engagement. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 379 to 381, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware JobPath was contracted to provide employment assistance and advice to jobseekers. While not a job placement service it has a proven track record of providing sustained employment. Since 2015, over 350,000 Jobseekers had engaged with the JobPath service of whom some 303,000 had either completed or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The JobPath service provides employment assistance and advice to customers referred to the service by my Department for a 52 week period. Should a customer secure employment during this engagement period the JobPath service also provides in-work support to these customers. However, should the customer subsequently lose their employment within their original 52 week engagement period they...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (14 Apr 2016) See 2 other results from this answer

Kevin Humphreys: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. JobPath is one of the range of activation supports, including schemes such as Community Employment, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Participants on JobPath receive intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (7 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Each JobPath Provider’s website lists a service guarantee which will be offered to every participant, this covers a baseline level of service including frequency of engagement, personal progression planning, geographic accessibility and in-employment support. On referral, each jobseeker is assigned a personal advisor who assesses the person’s skills, experience, challenges and...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Burton: No. "Agency services" relates to JobPath. The original Estimate for JobPath for 2015 was €12 million. At the time it was thought that JobPath would commence earlier in 2015 than turned out to be the case. There were many complications around contracts, tendering and so on. Provision was made for a more aggressive roll-out schedule, with multiple locations going live over a shorter...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath programme is to assist participants in finding sustainable full-time paid employment by providing intensive individual support and assistance. When selected for the JobPath activation programme in January this year, the person in question was in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance. It is a condition of the receipt of this payment that a recipient must be capable of,...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017) See 4 other results from this debate

Catherine Ardagh: I would like to speak to Fianna Fáil's amendment to this motion. Fianna Fáil will table an amendment to the Sinn Féin motion on JobPath. Our party is, of course, in favour of measures that support people in getting back into employment, and we recognise that employment support schemes have in many respects made positive contributions to thousands of people, assisting them in...

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

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 269 to 271, 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. For the purposes of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (17 Nov 2015) See 3 other results from this answer

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. JobPath is one of the range of activation supports, including schemes such as CE and Tús, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. In general, and JobPath is not an exception, it...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: There are currently just under 70,000 jobseekers availing of the JobPath service. 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 JobPath service is designed to augment and complement the Department’s existing...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...customers of my Department who are in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment. The activation services and schemes are provided directly by the Intreo Case Officers; by private companies such as the JobPath companies, the Local Employment Services and Job Clubs or through Community Employment Schemes such as CE and Tús. The aim of activation is to help the jobseeker secure and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 67 and 102 together. Some 60,000 jobseekers have engaged with JobPath since the service commenced in July 2015 with only 145 complaints recorded. This is 0.2% of the total. The majority of the complaints were about people’s initial reluctance to engage with the service or in respect of individual customer experience. All complaints have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department previously undertook an evaluation of JobPath in partnership with the OECD.  The 2019 OECD econometric evaluation of JobPath published by the Department demonstrated that the outcomes for participating jobseekers, both in terms of employment and earnings, are better than those of non-participants.  Weekly earnings of people who secured employment after JobPath...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (2 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...also required to engage with the Department’s activation services. The Social Welfare (Consolidated) Act 2005, as amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory.  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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (29 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...the cycle of unemployment, provide work experience and improve a person’s chances of returning to the labour market. As the Deputy is 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 Community Employment (CE) and Tús while continuing to engage with the JobPath service. This change...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (21 Oct 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...be capable of and actively seeking full-time employment.  The person concerned was previously in receipt of JA during the period 28/09/2020 to 23/12/2020 and had been referred to my Department’s JobPath programme in December 2020.  As the person concerned had not completed a 12-month engagement with JobPath, she was automatically referred to JobPath when she...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (20 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Kevin Humphreys: JobPath is the Government’s new labour market activation service aimed specifically at supporting the long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long term unemployed, with the primary objective of assisting such persons to gain sustained employment. JobPath will both augment and complement the Department’s internal activation services as well as such services...