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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) See 4 other results from this debate

...it is really about. It is in the interests of jobseekers. At the moment, across the various job club and local employment services, we have approximately 66 different providers. We also have JobPath providers and our own service. It is a bit of a confused landscape for jobseekers. The advice we got clearly in all those reports was to try to bring it together and integrate it. The...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Duncan Smith: ..., the first phase of which was recently advertised for seven counties in four lots through a request for tender, RFT, will replace existing jobs clubs and local employment services with the discredited JobPath-style model. It is a payment by fee-per-person-referred approach, that establishes a work-first model, and places no recognition on progression to education, training and work...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021) See 16 other results from this debate

Claire Kerrane: ...services and job clubs are not against procurement. We know that. We see it in the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, and the tendering process there. The Minister referred to JobPath. Two or three years ago, a motion was passed in the previous Dáil to end JobPath. It was not just Sinn Féin talking about it. After almost six years, the programme has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Brien: ...jobseekers to CE sponsoring authorities; if participation on this employment support would be of benefit to them. It should be noted that all long-term jobseekers who are currently engaged with the JobPath service continue to have opportunities to avail of placements on CE, while continuing to engage with the JobPath service. This will enable people with the JobPath service to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...to look at the services being provided. If there is that level of vacancies within CE at the moment, that means that services are not being provided in communities. Also the relationship between JobPath and CEs and the cutting off of referrals to CE schemes needs to looked at. I heard the Minister of State use the phrase “active labour market programme”. CE is much...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Brien: ...Development Officers in order to ensure referrals are made in a timely manner to fill vacancies. Long term unemployed persons who are engaging with Intreo contracted employment services such as Jobpath also continue to be eligible for CE and can take up CE places, once they satisfy eligibility requirements. The Deputy will also be aware that, building on the July Jobs Stimulus, and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Support Services (21 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Eugene Murphy: ...Service is to “consolidate existing LES and Job Clubs service and to extend it nationwide”, but the opposite seems to be happening. Disappointingly the tender appeared very similar to the JobPath service already in existence. Why was the service model changed? I can say that having read the tender, absolutely no part of the Job Club service has been incorporated in this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (21 Oct 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...be capable of and actively seeking full-time employment.  The person concerned was previously in receipt of JA during the period 28/09/2020 to 23/12/2020 and had been referred to my Department’s JobPath programme in December 2020.  As the person concerned had not completed a 12-month engagement with JobPath, she was automatically referred to JobPath when she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Driver Licences (20 Oct 2021)

Heather Humphreys: While participants of JobPath do not have access to the Training Support Grant (TSG) provided by the Department, 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 of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Murphy: .... They work alongside them to try to get jobs that would be suitable for them. They rightly pointed out that the drive of the Government would turn this from a useful service that helps people into a JobPath 2, where the service is outsourced to private companies that have horrific records in Britain and here, put pressure on people and are just interested in ticking boxes that maximise...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...employment services. Fundamentally, these are services we must ensure are of the highest quality for those who use them in the first instance. It is 90% about engagement. This is not similar to JobPath. These services relate to engagement and 90% of the transactions have to be ones of engagement with, and guidance to, the service user. Parallel with that, advice from the Office of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ... Provision of Translation Services (two contracts, Irish and other languages) €580,000.00 To meet my Department’s policy objectives of providing employment support services to jobseekers to assist them into employment, the Department contracts external employment services through four programmes - JobPath, Local Employment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021) See 16 other results from this debate

Denis Naughten: ..., we will have the opportunity to question senior officials from the Department of Social Protection on these changes and get a description of the regional employment service tendering process, comparable results achieved by JobPath, Intreo-based services, jobs clubs and the local employment service, and the reason behind the new phased procurement process. Witnesses are reminded of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (28 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the JobPath programme; and if it will be continued after October 2021. [46146/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Sep 2021) See 6 other results from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount the operation of JobPath has cost in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; if there has been an analysis of its efficacy, namely results and the number of persons successfully re-entering the workforce; and if a review of the programme has been considered in view of these findings. [45625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (9 Sep 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...for immediate support or advice. As part of the service, this support is provided for 52 weeks from the time the employment commences. The person is not required to attend any meetings with the JobPath provider during this time, and is not under any obligation to provide employment or employer details but, if they wish to do so, and avail of the in-employment support offered, all...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (9 Sep 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...’s activation service. This obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those employed by the Local Employment Service or by JobPath companies. Customers referred to JobPath who are also working part-time will have all activities, including meetings with their personal advisor, scheduled around their work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (9 Sep 2021)

Joe O'Brien: ...Pesticide Applications.  In advance of leaving the project, the CE Supervisor will help him prepare an exit plan to assist his return to the labour market. On finishing CE, the person concerned may be referred to my Department’s JobPath service who can work with him to ensure that the benefits of the experience and training received during his time on CE are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (9 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: 723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the tendering processes that were followed in respect of the allocation of contracts under the JobPath programme in 2021; the number of applications received under each tender; the process by which they were evaluated; the areas tenders allocated in 2021 cover; the length of each successful new contract; and if she will...