Results 21-40 of 52 for jobpath speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (8 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath since it commenced; the number of persons who have been subject to sanctions in each year to date for non-engagement with JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11190/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (8 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have secured employment as a result of participating in JobPath; if her Department collects data on the type and quality of employment secured; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11191/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons, by age and length of unemployment, who have participated in JobPath in each year since it commenced in 2013, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1925/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Employment Service (29 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: There is growing concern that the local employment service and jobs clubs are being increasingly marginalised by JobPath. I seek an assurance that the local employment service has a future, and that it will not be abolished or privatised.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints received against the two companies tasked with delivering JobPath since it commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50271/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath since its commencement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50272/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions her Department has taken when a complaint has been received in relation to JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50273/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...were able to continue with it. What is the updated position on that? Representations have been made to me and, I am sure, to others as well about the problem concerning the interaction between JobPath and the community employment schemes. For example, people have said they are looking for personnel to fill a community employment scheme but they cannot get participants. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...employment schemes to get people to involve themselves in such schemes, which have done a lot of very useful work locally. There is a rule that exacerbates this difficulty. If a person is put onto JobPath, he or she is tied up for 12 months and even though he or she might be available for a local community employment scheme, he or she is not entitled to go on it. Some of the local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns raised regrading the impact that JobPath is having on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39441/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (13 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints since commencement to date that have been made against the two companies tasked with delivering JobPath; the actions taken to investigate such complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34302/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 768. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons to date who have been referred to JobPath since it commenced; the number of those who have gained full-time employment due to participation in JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32911/17]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Working age employment supports is where we should be discussing JobPath. As I understand it, JobPath is an aid to employment. It is an employment support. Where exactly is it accounted for in chart 15? Community employment schemes, rural social schemes and all the other aids to employment are here but which refers to JobPath? We have JobsPlus and we have the wage subsidy scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 84. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that those that are offered a place on a community employment, CE, scheme and then subsequently referred to JobPath are being denied the opportunity to participate in the CE scheme even if that is their preference; if his attention has been further drawn to the difficulties this is creating for CE...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 518. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently participating in the JobPath scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13477/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 519. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints made against the two companies charged with operating the JobPath scheme; the nature of such complaints; the steps taken by his Department to address issues raised by participants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (21 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 520. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if JobPath will form part of the review to be carried out by his Department of activation programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13479/17]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...on community employment, CE, schemes. The Minister will note a lot of agitation on the ground about the rules surrounding these schemes and the difficulty in qualifying for them, particularly for people on the JobPath scheme who want to transfer to the CE scheme. In view of the underspend the Minister might consider relaxing some of those rules.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Perhaps I am misunderstanding this, and I welcome the Minister's announcement that he intends to relax the rules relating to community employment, but my experience of JobPath has been that if people have been unemployed and in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for a certain period of time, that is sufficient to qualify for the JobPath scheme. However, they have come to me and said they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the criticisms being levelled at JobPath; if so, the way he plans to address these criticisms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36085/16]