Results 1-20 of 37 for jobpath speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (16 Apr 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the objections to JobPath, which proposes to outsource employment support services to private operators, submitted by the public sector unions to the Haddington Road mechanism; and if she will halt the JobPath procurement process. [17649/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question arises from the need for clarification in respect of the company or companies granted the contract for dealing with long-term jobseekers, the contract known as JobPath. Do those involved understand fully the implications of being landed with a JobPath interview?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Nov 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is compulsory to return to JobPath in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that they completed a year on JobPath in August 2017. [49901/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Work Placement Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the planned JobPath programme, including the expected start-up and annual costs; the approximate portion of these costs that will go to profits for private companies; and if the existing local employment services will see any reduction in their funding from her Department in parallel with the implementation of the JobPath...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister's opening gambit contradicts the logic behind the JobPath scheme. She has already shown that people will find work by themselves or with the help of Intreo offices and the job activation schemes already in place without introducing this scheme. However, a debate on JobPath is for another day. The Minister's statement confirms some of what I believe is happening. Some people...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process; her views on whether the privatisation of social protection services proposed gives rise to a danger of supports focusing on those amongst the long-term unemployed that are easiest to place at the expense of those with more intensive support needs also known as parking and creaming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will return to the JobPath scheme in respect of which I have a number of questions. One of the key planks of the Pathways to Work strategy has been the roll-out of the Intreo offices, which I welcome. It is a good initiative. I have attended one, if not two, of the openings. It is a logical approach and one that should be taken in dole offices for many years but regrettably it was not....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the public service or through the changes the Minister brought about in the Intreo offices. All of what the Minister described sounds good but the experience to date is that people referred to JobPath cannot access a community employment scheme and, even if it is to their liking or part of a beneficial career path for them, they are being discouraged by JobPath officials. Either there is...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...a danger in the approach to the delivery of social welfare services as a whole. That is the reason I have argued against the putting out to tender of the delivery of unemployment services through JobPath. This again undermines a public service when one starts to commercialise it by putting JobPath out to tender. The result of that tender will potentially undermine the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (17 Dec 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the introduction of JobPath including the status of the tendering process, terms of reference and timeframe for conclusion of the tender, costings and roll-out of the project. [53937/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Work Placement Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am trying to ascertain whether the Minister is aware of concerns that her tendering for the outsourcing of the new job placement scheme, JobPath, will undermine existing underfunded community-based and not-for-profit local employment services.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the number of NEAP referrals by her Department to local employment services will be affected by the establishment of JobPath; the ongoing and future role of LESs in terms of categories and numbers of persons referred to them. [3829/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding from her Department to local employment services will not be reduced upon the establishment of jobPath. [3830/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process. [10345/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (9 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 259. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of bids received in the JobPath tender process; the names of the bidding companies and if he will provide an update on the process. [30244/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her proposal to privatise social welfare services via JobPath. [39796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (20 Jan 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the JobPath contracts with the preferred bidders have been finalised; if not, the expected timeframe for same and the expected date from which social welfare recipients are expected to be referred to the new providers. [2761/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tendering of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme: Discussion (28 Jan 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I believe four tendered for the JobPath programme.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (6 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the concerns raised around the JobPath scheme and the reputation of the companies which have been selected to undertake it. [17375/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (23 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the roll out of JobPath will commence; and the cost, to date, of the roll-out, including consultation, tendering and preparation. [24773/15]