Results 1-20 of 109 for jobpath speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (4 Oct 2016)

Leo Varadkar: To date, 31 people have been withdrawn from JobPath for the purpose of engaging with Employability Services. These include both people who had engaged with Employability Services but had not been designated as such on the Department’s IT system at the time of selection for JobPath as well as people selected for JobPath and who were subsequently identified as having needs that were...

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

Leo Varadkar: Participants in JobPath receive intensive individual support and attention over a period of up to 12 months to help them to tackle barriers to employment and find jobs. If they are successful in securing a job, the JobPath provider will continue to assist the client while in employment for a further period of up to 12 months. As part of JobPath, each person is assigned a personal adviser...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (16 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 733 to 736, inclusive, together. 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. Two companies - Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited have been contracted to provide the service on behalf of my Department. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (17 Jan 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 549 and 569 together. JobPath is an approach to the provision of employment services to jobseekers that are long-term unemployed. While engaging with the JobPath service participants are provided with a range of supports based on an assessment of individual needs which may include reasonable costs for travel and childcare. The JobPath providers will also...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (2 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a new approach to the provision of employment services to jobseekers that are long term unemployed. While engaging with the JobPath service participants are provided with a range of supports based on an assessment of individual needs, which may include reasonable travel costs and childcare. On a case by case basis, the JobPath providers will pay for items such as personal...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 273 to 279, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is a new approach to employment activation designed to support long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, have been contracted by the Department to deliver the JobPath...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (25 Jan 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service for people who are long-term unemployed (LTU) and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Clients are randomly selected for participation and the protocols for selection currently preclude the selection of anyone who has already completed JobPath within the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Participants (24 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. The EmployAbility Service is an employment and recruitment service to assist people with a disability to secure and maintain a job in the open labour market. Only clients in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (24 May 2016)

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. JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (12 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: 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. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted to deliver the service. While engaging with the JobPath service, participants are provided with a range of...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...’s Public Employment Service (PES) is managed by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies that provide JobPath services, Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Clubs. JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that supports people who are long-term unemployed (LTU) and those most at...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: My Department provides a range of activation supports for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. These supports include JobPath and employment programmes such as Community Employment (CE) schemes and Tús. The JobPath service is provided for jobseekers only. JobPath aims to place people into full-time sustainable employment. The period of...

Other Questions: Employment Support Services (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The State's public employment service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service, as well as by contracted private companies such as the two JobPath companies, Seetec Limited and Turas Nua Limited, the local employment service companies and job club providers. The Department has contracts in place with in excess of 60 companies for the provision of these...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (13 Jul 2016)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a service contracted by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) to provide long-term unemployed clients with intensive individual support over a period of 12 months, to help them overcome barriers to employment and to assist them to find employment. Contracts to deliver JobPath were signed with two companies – Seetec Limited and Turas Nua Limited. Referrals started in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (28 Jun 2016)

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 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...

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,...

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...