Results 21-40 of 241 for jobpath speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, the State’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Club providers. The Department has contracts in place with over 60 companies for the provision of these services. It is important to note,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...2017, and a strong downward trend continues. The Pathways to Work2016-2020 strategy continues to prioritise actions for the long-term unemployed. This includes the payment-by-results services of JobPath to engage more systematically with the long-term unemployed; providing targeted wage subsidies under JobsPlus; and reserved places for long-term unemployed jobseekers on employment and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath service, which is provided for jobseekers only, is to assist them in finding sustainable full time paid employment. Each person referred to the JobPath service is allocated a personal advisor who provides intensive individual support and assistance. When a jobseeker with JobPath finds employment, they will be supported by the JobPath Company for at least the first 13...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (30 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath programme is to assist participants in finding sustainable full-time paid employment by providing intensive individual support and assistance. When selected for the JobPath activation programme in January this year, the person in question was in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance. It is a condition of the receipt of this payment that a recipient must be capable of,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (25 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Both JobPath providers, Seetec and Turas Nua, provide immediate reimbursement for travel expenses upon production of a ticket / evidence of travel. This includes bus routes and where no suitable public transport is available, mileage costs will be paid. The amount payable is calculated on the basis of the most direct route from their home address to the office of the JobPath provider. Travel...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (24 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the deputy will be aware, the State’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service and Job Club providers. The Department has contracts in place with in excess of 60 companies for the provision of these services. This includes two...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (23 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...by people taken from the Live Register. The Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy continues to prioritise actions for the long-term unemployed. This includes the payment-by-results services of JobPath to engage more systematically with the long-term unemployed; providing targeted wage subsidies under JobsPlus; and through reserved places for long-term unemployed jobseekers on employment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (23 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...As the deputy will be aware, the State’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service and Job Club providers. The Department has contracts in place with in excess of 60 companies for the provision of these services. This includes two...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...and educate our staff. This is for many reasons. Obviously, we want staff to do more and do things better. We also want to give them opportunities for promotion and that has a cost to it. The JobPath contract falls into this subheading as well. As the Deputy will be aware, the main cost of this is when people get jobs that pay more than 30 hours per week and they sustain it for more...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...two things I would like to restore in 2018. I got a lot in the previous budget and, hopefully, I will have enough influence to get a lot in the next budget as well. I will be as clear as possible about JobPath. The allocation to JobPath in 2017 was €65 million. That roughly works out as an average cost per participant of €1,000. When we consider the number of people...

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

Leo Varadkar: On JobPath, Table 9.5 on page 47 gives a breakdown of funding for the major outsourcing. These include payments to medical certifiers, such as doctors, of €21.75 million, nurse attendance €270,000, payments to branch managers of €16 million, because many of the branch offices are outsourced, and a payment of €37 million to JobPath. The figure is there as much as...

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

Leo Varadkar: The next quarterly report will be out either at the end of this month or in early June. There is a lag because the way that JobPath works, as the Deputy knows, is that one is enrolled in JobPath and in it for a year, so it is not possible to get results until the year is complete.

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

Leo Varadkar: ...rate at which short-term unemployed people become long-term unemployed, an increase in the exit rate for people on the live register for two years or more, long-term unemployed people referred to JobPath and the reduction in the overall ratio between youth unemployment and overall unemployment. That shows the outturn for 2016 and also the performance indicators for 2017, which are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The aim of the JobPath service, which is provided for long term unemployed jobseekers only, is to assist them in finding sustainable full-time paid employment by providing intensive individual support and assistance. All decisions regarding the participation by jobseekers on work experience programmes such as the First Steps internship programme are taken by my Department. I am advised...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (16 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...my Department’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those advisors employed by the contracted JobPath companies. Seetec are one of the two companies who have been contracted to provide the JobPath activation service to customers of my Department who are long term...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (16 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 to 284, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua. The service was rolled out on a phased basis...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (16 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I assume the Deputy is referring to JobPath as the Department does not administer a scheme called JobPass. As the Deputy will be aware, the state’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Club providers. These services...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (9 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is an approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. While customers are participating with JobPath they receive intensive individual support to help them address barriers to employment and to assist them in finding jobs. Each person is assigned...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, the State’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Club providers. These services have been designed by the Department to augment and complement one another, to ensure the best outcomes possible...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (4 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is an approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. While customers are participating with JobPath they receive intensive individual support to help them address barriers to employment and to assist them in finding jobs. Each person is assigned...