Results 41-60 of 985 for jobpath

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 1070. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20663/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Participants of JobPath do not have access to the Training Support Grant (TSG) provided by the Department.  However, the JobPath companies will on a case by case basis provide similar funding. JobPath providers have their own discretionary funds available to pay for training or other interventions; the decision to approve or reject any request for funding is solely at the discretion...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (7 Apr 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount provided to JobPath providers in respect of funding for leasing premises in the course of their role in delivering services in tabular form. [19046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Claire Kerrane: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme when it ceases; if findings from a review will be used to inform the design and scaling up of job activation and employment services as set out in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14842/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (22 Mar 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ..., translation & interpretation services and customer helpline support. 1.  Externally Contracted Employment Services  The Department contracts external employment services through four programmes: JobPath, Local Employment Services (LES), EmployAbility and Job Clubs.  Externally contracted provision supports the Department with additional capacity and access to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Mar 2022) See 3 other results from this answer

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons are still being referred to JobPath. [13014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...gaining employment. Activation services are provided both internally through the Department’s Intreo Centres, and externally through our partners such as Local Employment Services (LES) and JobPath. The criteria for selection for activation are as follows: - The customer has been awarded a jobseeker payment, and - There is no policy reason for excluding the customer from...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Claire Kerrane: ...local employment services, and that could have been done without totally changing the model. We have seen what happens when profit is involved and private companies come in. We have seen it with JobPath, with a success rate of 6.8% as regards people gaining employment that lasts for one year. That has been at a massive cost, more than €250 million of taxpayers' money, for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (9 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...is no requirement to change the model. We are removing the community, not-for-profit basis that has worked so well and moving to a payment-by-results model, which we have already seen through JobPath has not worked. More than 320,000 people have been referred to JobPath, 6.8% of whom have sourced employment that has lasted for a year, at a cost of €250 million to taxpayers....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Claire Kerrane: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if referrals to JobPath ceased at the end of 2021 as planned; if the scheme will be reviewed; if the numbers who gained employment as a result of the scheme will be collated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5331/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ..." and to ensure that the pathway to an apprenticeship is more transparent and easier to navigate than it is currently so that increased participation will happen. Turas Nua was appointed as a JobPath provider by the Department of Social Protection. The JobPath scheme left a lot to be desired for many people who found themselves out of work through no fault of their own. They found...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Service Level Agreements (1 Feb 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 555 to 557, inclusive, together. Turas Nua is one of two companies contracted to provide the JobPath employment assistance and advisory service on behalf of my Department. The purpose of the service is to provide assistance and advice to jobseekers who are long-term unemployed. Providers are paid based on performance and except for the initial registration...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... Not one home has been connected yet. We have asked for details about the contract, such as whether there will be penalties for targets not being met or what will happen. It reminds me of the JobPath situation and the sell-off of Eircom. People want to know that they and their money are protected but they also want to know when they will be connected. That is not happening at the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (27 Jan 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...carried out for the period 1 January 2021 to date are as follows: - Between November 2021 and January 2022 my Department commissioned a customer survey targeted at customers of Jobseekers and JobPath. This was a telephone survey and the cost of this survey was €72,324. - During 2021 my Department carried out 3 surveys targeted at employers. These were telephone surveys on employer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (19 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

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: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies contracted to deliver the JobPath employment advisory and assistance service, as part of the State's Public Employment Service. JobPath provides employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed to assist them secure full-time paid employment. JobPath is a payments by results model with payments consisting of an initial registration fee and four...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (19 Jan 2022) See 3 other results from this answer

Martin Browne: 911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the JobPath service to the State in 2021. [1108/22]

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

Heather Humphreys: ...contracted employment services, payment services, and translation and interpretation services.   1.Externally Contracted Employment Services  The Department contracts external employment services through four programmes: JobPath, Local Employment Services (LES), EmployAbility and Job Clubs.  Externally contracted provision supports the Department with additional...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...and Rural Development and the Islands and from the Committee of Public Accounts, of which Government Deputies make up the majority. They concluded, the Committee of Public Accounts in particular, that JobPath has not delivered value for money for the taxpayer, and, with a 7% success rate, I do not think it has delivered for the jobseeker either. If Government Deputies, councillors, the...