Results 1-20 of 86 for jobpath speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (18 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people referred to JobPath since 2015, in tabular form. [16615/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (18 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people currently engaged with JobPath. [16617/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (18 Apr 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have gained employment sustained for 52 weeks on JobPath, in tabular form. [16618/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: ...three or four times in respect of the same person. Over €300 million of taxpayers' money was paid to private companies. We had great difficulty in getting information about the many fees involved in JobPath. We ended up getting it through the Committee of Public Accounts a number of years ago. I do not believe that review of 2019 is sufficient when we are talking about these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will carry out a review of the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15344/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Does the Minister intend to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme now that referrals to that scheme have ceased? Given the amount of taxpayers’ money that has been spent on JobPath, it is very important that the scheme be reviewed now that referrals have ceased or else to have a guarantee that such a review will take place once it is fully finished.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (28 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the Minister for the reply. The JobPath scheme has cost over €322 million of taxpayers’ money. Any time I hear a Government representative speaking about JobPath, they speak of it as a success. However, I cannot understand how 350,488 people were referred to JobPath, some twice, some three times and a very few a fourth time, and then that was stopped. Some 29,041...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: ...the end of local employment services and job clubs, are there any plans for any contracted services or tenders for any other schemes for this year or any planned changes? Regarding the end of JobPath, aside from the approximately 20,000 people who went on it at the start of 2022 and remain on it, are there plans to review that scheme, its benefits and how it has worked? From the figures...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Claire Kerrane: Will there be a review of JobPath because €322 million has been spent on it? If we take the figures just given by the Minister, 32,000 people are still active on it. That means that 318,488 people completed the programme and of that figure, 29,000 have a job that lasted a year. Those 318,488 people have finished, of which 29,000 have a job, so you are looking at a success rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons referred to JobPath since it was established; and the total number of referred twice, three times and four times in tabular form. [60947/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of people who sourced employment while on JobPath and in tabular form, the total number of persons who sustained work for 13, 26, 39 and 52 weeks based on the number of persons who have completed JobPath to date that is, no longer engaged on JobPath in tabular form. [60948/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of JobPath since it was established. [60949/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (6 Dec 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will be reviewing JobPath now that referrals have ended. [60950/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...local communities. They are being treated appallingly by the Government to move from the community not-for-profit base that worked very well to a for-profit model that we saw fail abysmally in JobPath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...six years, yet more than 3,000 jobs are advertised that cannot be filled. This is not an issue that has just emerged on the back of Covid-19, albeit I understand that the pandemic has had an impact. JobPath has been the greatest threat from day one, as referrals to it continue to increase and the CE and other schemes have suffered as a result. This has been an issue for quite some time,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of JobPath participants who have gained sustained employment for 13 weeks; 26 weeks; 39 weeks; and 52 weeks respectively by year since 2015, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of participants who have been referred to JobPath since 2015 by year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29544/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1095. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of JobPath since 2015 to date and the cost by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1096. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when JobPath referrals are due to end given that the scheme was due to end in December 2021 and was extended by six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal framework that enables her Department to share information on persons seeking employment with private companies operating JobPath; the way this relates to with the Data Protection Act 2018; if there is any conflict with GDPR compliance where those persons have not provided their explicit consent to be contacted by...