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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)

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...

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

Catherine Murphy: 1288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which persons are chosen to participate in JobPath; the way in which persons are selected to enter JobPath for a second time; if there is a maximum number of times a person may be sent to engage with the JobPath programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36454/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (9 Jul 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can opt out of the JobPath scheme in cases in which the client has found and secured employment outside of the JobPath programme such as in a case (details supplied); if JobPath providers are not rewarded financially in instances in which a person secures employment arising from their own endeavours; the amount...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yesterday, while speaking on the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill, I raised serious concerns regarding the so-called activation programme, JobPath. The company which has the contract to run JobPath is Seetec. In the United Kingdom, the same company, Seetec, has been the subject of a fraud investigation following its actions while contracted to the UK Department of Work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (22 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a value for money report was produced on JobPath; her plans to conduct a value for money report regarding JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49513/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I am looking at the figures I received in a reply to a parliamentary question in 15 October. It looks as if there is a high level of referral to JobPath this year. There were 14,993 people engaged with JobPath between March and September.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person that completes a 52 week programme for jobpath that has failed to find employment can be referred back to the jobpath programme for a further 52 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3552/18]

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

Catherine Murphy: 293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a JobPath provider obtains a level of information on a person (details supplied); her views on whether it is appropriate for such information to be stored on a JobPath provider's database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of companies subcontracted by companies (details supplied) to provide information sessions to persons on the JobPath scheme network personnel; the expenditure to date on subcontracted work in the context of the delivery of JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10284/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I want to return to the JobPath scheme. I will try to be short in my questions as I have limited time, so I would like some short answers. JobPath is an outsourced scheme and it is performance based. A lot of the feedback I have got, and I have talked to Mr. McKeon about this before, is that people were directed towards the likes of the hospitality and security sectors and they were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 1514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recourse to appeal there is for persons that are referred onto a JobPath programme within 20 days of commencing a jobseeker's allowance claim, in which those persons are committed to taking college places, the CAO process has been commenced, applications submitted and accepted and in which those persons are advised by...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: On JobPath, Deputies are relating the experiences not of people who are influenced by what happened in the United Kingdom, but the practical experience of people who have contacted us. I am getting exactly the same kind of feedback as other Deputies are. I have discussed the matter with Mr. McKeon previously at meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts with regard to people having to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 5 November 2015, if she will provide, copies of the detailed service statements which the contracted JobPath companies are required to abide by, in delivering specifically tailored job search assistance activation services to customers, under contract with her Department; the full detail of...

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

Catherine Murphy: 1108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial and other supports provided to jobseekers who are engaging with the JobPath programme and who by virtue of their geographical position find themselves unable to travel to a potential employment opportunity and have difficulty in attending JobPath sessions due to financial constraints and lack of public...

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)

Catherine Murphy: I am almost afraid to raise the issue of JobPath because if I do, I know a number of people who have engaged with the service will make contact with my colleagues. It depends on what is counted in terms of value for money. I have no problem with there being a case management system. It is welcome that people are helped to have a plan. I am not wild about the outsourcing of it but I have a...

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)

Catherine Murphy: ...one of which I raised in the Dáil a few months ago. An individual was hounded to sign a form. He went off and got a job himself but was hounded, as was his new employer. He did not know how the JobPath company even managed to identify his new employer. He was hounded into signing a declaration to the effect that Seetec had secured the job for him. If that case were replicated,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (22 Sep 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the contracts that have been issued to date in relation to JobPath programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31824/15]

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

Catherine Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has evaluated the JobPath contract performance; what key performance indicators are used to measure performance; what targets have been met; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5242/16]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Catherine Murphy: In regard to other activation measures, it would appear that JobPath takes prominence over Tús. Is that how the Department designed it?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (26 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 1516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number complaints in respect of the service to persons by JobPath she has received; the way these are counted and recorded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35689/17]