Results 21-40 of 66 for jobpath speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Nov 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I envisage part of the problem lying with JobPath. The financial relationship between the particular companies and the Department is not something they will share with us because they will tell us it is commercially sensitive. That is at the heart of this. We are told we are almost at zero unemployment and large amounts are being expended on companies and may continue to be. If we cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (6 Nov 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 1108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial and other supports provided to jobseekers who are engaging with the JobPath programme and who by virtue of their geographical position find themselves unable to travel to a potential employment opportunity and have difficulty in attending JobPath sessions due to financial constraints and lack of public...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 1288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which persons are chosen to participate in JobPath; the way in which persons are selected to enter JobPath for a second time; if there is a maximum number of times a person may be sent to engage with the JobPath programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36454/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 19 June 2018, if the way in which resignation letters from customers are automatically generated and worded by JobPath providers will be reviewed; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) had an offer to be reinstated one month after they were asked to leave and three...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Springboard Programme (19 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why, when persons are assessed as being long-term unemployed with respect to JobPath, having completed a Springboard programme, they are excluded from eligibility for a conversion course due to the fact they are not deemed to be long-term unemployed; her plans to make changes in this regard; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the JobPath programme on 8 June 2018 by the number in Seetec and those in Turas Nua, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25809/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (13 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...the steps she took in the context of GDPR to ensure her Department's transfer of personal data of persons to Seetec and Turas Nua was compliant with GDPR rules; if she has had engagement with JobPath operators on the way in which they are compliant with GDPR rules in the context of processing and storing personal data of persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25845/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to emails from a person (details supplied) regarding JobPath and a sanction applied to their payments; if the case will be reviewed and a response issued directly to the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of companies subcontracted by companies (details supplied) to provide information sessions to persons on the JobPath scheme network personnel; the expenditure to date on subcontracted work in the context of the delivery of JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10284/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a JobPath provider obtains a level of information on a person (details supplied); her views on whether it is appropriate for such information to be stored on a JobPath provider's database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the first steps programme who have been referred to JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5454/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the JobPath scheme who have availed of the training support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5501/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person that completes a 52 week programme for jobpath that has failed to find employment can be referred back to the jobpath programme for a further 52 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3552/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person that had been placed under sanction for non-compliance with the Jobpath programme can be served with consecutive sanctions; if a person under sanction can be immediately sanctioned after serving a previous sanction; if not, if there is an appeal process or sanction notice that must be issued first; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the policy and guidelines for the issuing of sanctions regarding jobpath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3562/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the original request for tenders for the JobPath scheme; the number of persons that were part of the process; if the tender was published on etenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53273/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. The JobPath scheme replaced JobBridge.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The contract for JobPath went to competitive tender.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...one of which I raised in the Dáil a few months ago. An individual was hounded to sign a form. He went off and got a job himself but was hounded, as was his new employer. He did not know how the JobPath company even managed to identify his new employer. He was hounded into signing a declaration to the effect that Seetec had secured the job for him. If that case were replicated,...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...is value for money and whether it is progression. Essentially, my understanding of what happens in this process is that the companies are given the detail of an individual who they must sign up to JobPath. The information is passed on from the Department.