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Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Review (17 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath people, Turas Nua and Seetec, do not select their candidates. We pick the candidates and we only pick people who are suitable for JobPath. It is not the case that people sit down in an Intreo office and say they want to do the CE scheme but we say they cannot and that we are sending them to JobPath. We only send people to JobPath who are jobs ready and need help on a one-to-one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 372, 373 and 374 together. JobPath is an employment assistance and advice service for the long term unemployed. The 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 registration fee is a fee payable for engagement and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2016) See 2 other results from this answer

Leo Varadkar: 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. JobPath is one of the range of activation supports, including schemes such as CE and TÚS, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. In order to manage the allocation of activation support places...

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

Leo Varadkar: The survey of JobPath candidates formed part of a single contract covering a 2016 customer satisfaction survey of both JobPath candidates and of jobseeker users of standard Intreo services. Taking account of the numbers surveyed in the different respondent categories, the amount of the contract charge attributable to the JobPath element of the survey was €58,500 before VAT, or...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (2 May 2017)

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. The JobPath service complements the service provided by my Department’s own staff in Intreo Centres and by the Local Employment Service providers. This customer was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...further details on that. What concerns me about the Minister's reply is the move to a multi-annual funding approach that pays for each jobseeker referred to the service, which is in essence JobPath. JobPath has failed, is not a quality service and has not served the jobseeker nor the taxpayer well. JobPath has cost the taxpayer €259 million and counting since 2015 whereas the...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016) See 5 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...taking up employment in occupations or sectors outside of their preferred field of work.  This applies to people from all backgrounds, trades and professions. All the jobseekers referred to JobPath have been registered as unemployed and have had a live claim for a period of at least 12 months. On referral to a JobPath service provider they are assigned a personal employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (9 Jul 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 clients are chosen by means of a random selection...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (19 Jul 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: ...’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the department’s own case officers or those employed by the Local Employment Service or by JobPath. A jobseeker’s payment is conditional on a person seeking employment and being willing to take up suitable employment. The suitability of employment is a key factor...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (16 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...my Department’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those advisors employed by the contracted JobPath companies. Seetec are one of the two companies who have been contracted to provide the JobPath activation service to customers of my Department who are long term...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Willie O'Dea: Working age employment supports is where we should be discussing JobPath. As I understand it, JobPath is an aid to employment. It is an employment support. Where exactly is it accounted for in chart 15? Community employment schemes, rural social schemes and all the other aids to employment are here but which refers to JobPath? We have JobsPlus and we have the wage subsidy scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Murphy: In that context, the introduction of the JobPath scheme had an impact on the likes of community employment schemes. If we counted community employment schemes only with respect to progression, a different measurement may arise, as some of the community employment schemes fulfil quite significant roles in communities. They include the likes of meals on wheels, the running of football clubs...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: To be clear, JobPath is not a job placement service. The providers are contracted to provide employment assistance and to support jobseekers. It is important to say that a review of JobPath has been carried out and that the OECD evaluation, which is completely independent, showed that, overall, those who participate on JobPath have better employment outcomes and earnings than those who are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (2 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...engage with the Department’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those advisors employed by JobPath. JobPath is one of a range of activation supports, including schemes such as Community Employment (CE), catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. When referred to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Mar 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Burton: JobPath is the Government’s new programme of labour market activation aimed specifically at the long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed. On 1 July 2013, the Department published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in which it notified the market that it was considering the potential of contracting private/third party providers of employment services....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (22 Nov 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: 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). CE schemes provide part-time temporary work in their local communities, as a stepping-stone back to employment, for people in receipt of a range...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (17 Apr 2018)

Regina Doherty: Seetec is one of two companies contracted to provide the JobPath service on behalf of my Department. Seetec deliver the service in the northern half of the State As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Participants on JobPath receive intensive individual support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service was launched in 2015 on a ‘rolling basis’ with referral numbers gradually increasing over time. JobPath providers do not apply or recommend the application of a penalty rate of payment. They simply advise the Department if a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (8 Nov 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: There is no restriction on unemployed teachers taking up short notice substitution or supervision hours while in receipt of employment support services under JobPath. Unemployed jobseekers who take up a short term work assignment are required to notify the Department of Social Protection of any such employment so that the appropriate adjustments can be made to their welfare payment. If they...

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

Regina Doherty: The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and counseling service to long term unemployed jobseekers.  This is the group of jobseekers that faces the most significant barriers to entering full-time employment. Between July 2015 and March 2019, some 216,546 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath...