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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

...decisions that need to be made in that context which will in fact determine whether any of these innovations will work. Take the case of the pay-by-results mechanisms in place, for example, with JobPath. If organisations are geared towards having to deliver services in the context of being paid by results, it leads to creaming and parking. It also leads to Travellers being dumped on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has carried out an audit on the companies that have been running JobPath in advance of their contracts being reviewed for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50369/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

John Brady: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for JobPath in 2020; if the plans will change in the case of a Brexit deal being agreed and passed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50249/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (4 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for JobPath; if the companies contracts will be renewed for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50368/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: 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 service is delivered by two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua. Information is shared with these contractors to enable them to provide employment services on behalf of the Department. The purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rates paid to the companies for each person who is referred to them with regard to the various companies that run the JobPath scheme; the stage in the process the payment or payments are made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50389/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...related experience. Jobseekers are asked to sign the PPP as an indication of their agreement to carry out the activation measures contained in the document. My Department will pay an initial registration fee to a JobPath provider when the customer has engaged with the service. A completed PPP is taken as evidence of engagement, a customer signature is not a requirement as evidence of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... We need to see that being reduced as well as looking at conflicts of interest and other issues. Another major problem I have with contracting out is the lack of transparency. I refer to the JobPath contract. It has been impossible for us to get details of that contract. We spend €202 million on services for employment when one adds in local employment services and all the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: ...week. It was correspondence from the Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding his last visit here. I posed a number of questions to him regarding JobPath and its overall cost, which I think has been over €70 million. I asked specific questions about referrals. I asked whether it was possible for somebody to be referred a third...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The breakdown of the original estimates was: An Post agency fees, €31 million; the medical certificates, as originally anticipated, €23.7 million; JobPath, €57.5 million; our nurses, €270,000; and our branch managers, €16 million. The actual outturns were as follows. An Post agency fees, as opposed to €31.03 million, were €30.1 million. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (26 Nov 2019)

Dara Calleary: 460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if information (details supplied) will be provided in tabular form. [48545/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (26 Nov 2019)

John Brady: 469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath; the number of persons referred twice, three and four times, respectively, having already spent at least one year on the scheme previously, in tabular form. [48686/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (26 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...legal advice to the effect that renewing the LES and Job Clubs contracts annually, without any movement towards competitive procurement, is no longer sustainable. This, combined with the closure of the JobPath contracts to new referrals at the end of 2020, provides my Department with the opportunity to review all contracted public employment services. The aim is to design and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (19 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date the contracts she and her predecessor entered into with the JobPath companies Seetec and Turas Nua. [47428/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...about how to ensure people are given literacy or educational options when they are in contact with employment services. For example, people may have much anxiety if they are put through the JobPath scheme or they be concerned about losing entitlements. What does a positive or negative invitation to engage with these services look like? How do we ensure that people who may have literacy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It was about a CV builder in the context of Seetec or JobPath. When I asked a question of the officials of the Department when they came before the committee, I was informed that it was just a newspaper item and that there was no issue arising. I tabled a parliamentary question subsequently. It is not a big deal, but it is an issue relating to accurate information that is being given. The...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

James Lawless: ...which the Minister has made some reforms in the past couple of years. Many of us on this side of the House repeatedly raise the issues faced by people on these schemes, in particular the difficulties with JobPath, Turas Nua and other companies that came into the system. Those companies were perhaps bringing a private sector approach to a more complex problem or challenge, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers, was to run for at least six years comprising two consecutive phases: phase one entailed four years of client referrals, while phase two entailed a ‘run off’ period during which time no additional clients were to be referred.  The contract includes an option to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2019)

John Brady: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath; the number of those referred that were on the live register for 12 months or more; and the number that were in part-time employment since its introduction, in tabular form. [46772/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (12 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath since its commencement and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46218/19]