Results 1-16 of 16 for jobpath speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...what manuals it is using, and then try to use the same approach from day one. We all share the same experience. The next item deals with the same Department. The committee recommends that the JobPath programme be reviewed on a value for money basis to determine whether the programme should continue. The Department accepts the recommendation in full. It has conducted many surveys and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the response to the correspondents who raised the issue. No. 2158 is also from John McKeown, Secretary General, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, dated 10 May, providing further information regarding the JobPath programme in response to our queries. The Department is currently reviewing its contract of public employment services with a view to continuing to provide...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...meeting. We are just formally noting it. The next item is No. 2103B from Mr. John Conlon, assistant secretary, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, providing an evaluation of the JobPath scheme. At our meeting on 29 November 2018, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection undertook to forward the report to the committee when it was completed. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are just noting the two reports – the working paper, or the evaluation of JobPath outcomes for the last quarter of 2016, printed by the Department, and the report on satisfaction with JobPath service providers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We included a chapter on JobPath in our earlier periodic report. I will ask the secretariat to go back through our recent periodic reports immediately. We have received the formal response from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding our previous communication. I do not think we have received a response from the Department regarding some of our previous periodic reports,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...taken within it. The details given include age and the number and length of absences. We will note and publish the correspondence. Copies of the reports on the back to education allowance and JobPath are also available. The Department also deals with false self-employment cases. There is a detailed chart showing the savings achieved in that area as a result of employer inspections. ...

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)

Seán Fleming: ...of the Comptroller Auditor General and appropriation accounts: Vote 37 - Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection; chapter 11 - regularity of social welfare payments; chapter 12 - JobPath employment activation service; chapter 13 - actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund; chapter 14 - overpayments of age-related jobseeker's allowance; and chapter 20 - PRSI contributions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...on Employment Affairs and Social Protection on 8 May. The last paragraph of his letter says the first question in our correspondence related to non-delivery of a contract service. It is about JobPath. It says the second question at the joint committee related to the operation of the payment model. They are two slightly different aspects of the same issue and he makes clear that he was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...correspondence. The next item is No. 1284C, dated 9 May, received from an individual on information given to the committee in response to a question raised regarding public moneys being spent on JobPath. The individual believes inconsistent information was given by the Secretary General who attended a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. Before we make any assessment on this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...document. The Senator asks the committee to examine the matter considering the ongoing spending in the area. However, given that our remit is to look back, it may be more appropriate for the sectoral committee. There is a review of JobPath. There are two companies involved. We are seeking information on the commercial sensitivity issue but the policy of how that is working is a matter...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will come back to that next week because it is to be hoped that we will have further information on JobPath.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...is with their parent Departments, so they should not be blamed if they are not published. It is a valid point but we will look at it in the round. No. 1010C relates to a report entitled JobPath Exposed. Deputy Cullinane has asked that this report be held over until the next meeting. We will hold it over. No. 1012C is a copy of an email an individual sent to the Minister for Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Seán Fleming: Before I call Deputy MacSharry, Mr. McKeon stated that people in JobPath companies had a chance of approximately 34%-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...in receiving. No. 894C is correspondence dated 9 November 2017 from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, providing information on the JobPath service. We will note this for the time being. If members have any further questions, we can raise them at the meeting with the Department on 7 December 2017. May we note and publish...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...that we write to the Department to see if the case has proceeded and what the up-to-date position is. Next is No. 779C, correspondence dated 28 September, from an individual regarding the JobPath programme. He raises questions about the administration of the scheme. I propose that we write to the Department for a detailed response. We will deal with the matter when we get that response.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...to be revisited by the Minister because there is a fundamental flaw in her approach to this issue regarding people on low incomes. We will deal separately with the Irish Water issue. I welcome the increased funding for JobsPlus and JobPath which will be dealt with by means of other administrative arrangements. Abuse of some of these schemes is a concern and they may need to be put on a...