Results 1-13 of 13 for jobpath speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the opportunities available under the jobpath scheme and or other Departmental schemes for persons to retrain in green trades, such as retrofitting of homes and exterior insulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63392/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the increase in the training support grant from €500 to €1,000 is not available for JobPath participants despite INTREO confirming that the increase should be paid to JobPath participants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34317/21]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Agencies Staff Data (13 Jul 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of personal advisers recruited by contractors and currently in operation under the JobPath scheme; the basis on which he deems the qualifications and experience of such personal advisers adequate; the procedures in place to ensure that these qualifications and experience, as required by the tendering process, continue to meet the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the role of JobPath, with particular reference to the need to ensure a strong focus on upskilling the long-term unemployed. [19049/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The question relates to the mismatch between the needs of the economy and jobseekers, on the one hand, and the central purpose of the JobPath scheme, on the other. It is a very pressing issue. It is not a JobPath but a job cul-de-sac in many ways and the Minister needs to address it urgently.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: A key concern is that jobseekers who participate in JobPath are, at best, offered courses of between three and six months duration. We know, given the skills shortages in the economy that have been identified, that the type of training required - FETAC level 5 and level 6 - requires training for a minimum of eight months and up to two years in most cases. The Department spends €300...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (30 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: ...the two issues which should be served by the Department, but they are not. Does the Minister accept that potentially there is a significant value for money issue if the Department is tied into a JobPath contract which it cannot change when it is not actually upskilling the long-term unemployed to meet the skills shortages in the economy? Does he accept that there is a need to review the...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: ...to get people who left school early ready to take jobs, towards efforts to have them take up low-paid jobs. The decision to transfer many staff from the education and training boards who engaged in upskilling to JobPath and the Department of Social Protection has resulted in a significant and regressive shift towards forcing adults with low levels of education into low-skilled jobs,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (8 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have been selected for participation in the JobPath scheme in each geographical area where it is in operation; the criteria used for the selection of this group; the length of time current and past participants have spent unemployed by bands of three months; the time participants spent working with JobPath providers...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...she commissioned the London-based Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion to carry out in 2012, at a cost of approximately €190,000 to the taxpayer; the impact of this study on the design of the JobPath programme; if she will publish the study. [42747/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 17 November 2015, the details of the rigorous public procurement process that led to the awarding of the JobPath tenders; her plans to publish the successful bids submitted and the criteria she used in the procurement process to select the companies concerned; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...in the provision of welfare to work programmes; the implications this has for the company’s operations; and if she was cognisant of this company’s performance when it was selected to operate the JobPath scheme. [42749/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the 2012 investigation in the United Kingdom into a company (details supplied), which forms part of one of the JobPath providers, and that alleges widespread and systemic fraud within that company; further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 17 November 2015, if she is aware that the investigations into fraud were...