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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised)
(26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...more people than ever were on the PUP and standard unemployment payments. A lot of this is attributable to two things. The first is people not being referred to these schemes because a hold back by the JobPath programme where people who are very unlikely to get employment are not able to access these schemes because they must go through a whole process with JobPath first. The second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions and Considerations (Resumed): Irish Local Development Network (19 May 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...to us saying that the contracts legally terminate on a certain date. Can that issue be clarified? Are ILDN companies interested in taking over or doing the work previously done by Turas Nua, JobPath in other words, and Seetec? Again, we should not bring in multinationals to do this work. It would be much better done by partnership companies where the board would be made up of local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021) See 5 other results from this debate

Carol Nolan: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to continue using the services provided by Turas Nua and Seetec for the operation of the JobPath scheme; if she will consider alternative service providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26483/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Claire Kerrane: ...further details on that. What concerns me about the Minister's reply is the move to a multi-annual funding approach that pays for each jobseeker referred to the service, which is in essence JobPath. JobPath has failed, is not a quality service and has not served the jobseeker nor the taxpayer well. JobPath has cost the taxpayer €259 million and counting since 2015 whereas the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (18 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...process, my Department began engaging with external consultants to review all public employment services (PES), including contracted employment services delivered through EmployAbility, Job Clubs, JobPath and the Local Employment Services. The successful tender, a joint bid by the Institute for Employment Studies and Social Finance, both UK-based non-profit bodies, reviewed the existing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Bríd Smith: I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. In January 2019, the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection examined the experience of JobPath and heard from researchers from the Waterford Un/employment Research Collaborative. One of the first things the researchers mentioned was the experience of the Traveller community on JobPath. Among other nasty experiences...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (11 May 2021) See 4 other results from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have had a sanction imposed on their payment for failing to engage with the JobPath services in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, by county in tabular form. [24472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those completing community employment are being referred to JobPath later; if so, when this commenced; and the number of persons that have completed community employment have been moved to JobPath. [22475/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (28 Apr 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Bríd Smith: 650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the conditions under which a person receiving a jobseeker’s payment can be referred to a JobPath provider; if they must be deemed to be long-term unemployed; the definition used for long-term unemployed; if a person in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit can be referred to a JobPath provider; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if JobPath has been closed down in accordance with the motion passed by Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2019; if contracts to administer JobPath made by her Department or any other Department with Turas Nua or Seetec have either been suspended or cancelled; if in the current context of mass unemployment neither Turas...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans or those of her Department with regard to so-called activation measures such as JobPath (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21883/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (22 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: ...Qualifications in Manual Handling, Covid Awareness, First Aid, HACCP/Food Safety and Safepass. This is the maximum participation time available to the participant at the moment. On finishing CE, participants will be referred to our JobPath service who will work with them to ensure that the benefits of the experience and training they received during their time on CE are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ..., which is a good thing that then creates jobs in our indigenous sector as well. We have supported workers to an unprecedented extent through the various interventions we have taken. In regard to JobPath and the local employment services and so on, the Minister for Social Protection will bring proposals in that respect to Government. Again, our objective is to help workers but also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals made to JobPath to date in 2021; the reason referrals have continued during level 5 restrictions given they were suspended previously; the engagement and training being offered to participants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18268/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (21 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...to be community-focused; if her Department will avoid a move towards a cost-bid model as part of updates to local employment services in recognition of the extensive public costs of schemes such as JobPath; if a cost-meet model will be utilised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19021/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath to date in 2021. [19841/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 1196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if JobPath will be coming to an end soon; if so, the date it be will be finishing; if she plans to replace the scheme with another scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20439/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...should have no difficulty in putting forward a good bid. I want to be very clear on that. There is a multifaceted approach to our employment services with the three different strands of Intreo, JobPath and the LES. That is important to say. This is absolutely not a drive to reduce costs. I want to be clear on that. The focus is on expanding the quality of the provision in the best...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commencement of Legislation (31 Mar 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...Minister shall review the operation of the Tús scheme, in particular, the possibility of allowing Tús scheme participants to extend their participation on the scheme beyond one year with their host group whilst also participating on JobPath. The Minister shall bring forward a report on same within 3 months of this Bill being enacted. A report was prepared and submitted to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (24 Mar 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies contracted to deliver the JobPath service, as part of the State's Public Employment Service. JobPath provides employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed in order to assist them secure full-time paid employment. JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the...

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