Results 61-80 of 241 for jobpath speaker:Leo Varadkar

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

Leo Varadkar: ...will be aware, my Department provides a range of activation supports and programmes catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. These include the JobPath service and programmes such as Community Employment (CE). The JobPath service is provided for jobseekers and the period of engagement with the service for any individual is typically 52...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...and being willing to take up suitable employment. To satisfy this condition, it is necessary for a person to take positive action and make genuine efforts to secure employment. Participants on JobPath receive intensive individual support to help them tackle barriers to employment and to assist them in finding full-time paid sustainable employment. Each person is assigned to a...

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

Leo Varadkar: Public Representatives may seek information from the JobPath service providers on behalf of an individual with that individual’s consent. The process to be followed by the provider in this instance is set out in the Data Protection Protocol issued to the service providers as part of the contract documentation. This process includes establishing that an inquirer is a public...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...customers of my Department who are in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment. The activation services and schemes are provided directly by the Intreo Case Officers; by private companies such as the JobPath companies, the Local Employment Services and Job Clubs or through Community Employment Schemes such as CE and Tús. The aim of activation is to help the jobseeker secure and...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...time to work with the participants and also that the best use is made of the available places. In general jobseekers are not transferred to Community Employment (CE) once they are referred to JobPath. However, jobseekers who on the date of their referral to JobPath already have a written offer with a start date within four weeks for CE will be facilitated to take up the placement....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Employment Service (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...to replace them. Ireland’s Public Employment Service (PES) is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies i.e. the JobPath companies, the Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Clubs. The LES engages primarily with long-term unemployed jobseekers but may also engage with short-term unemployed...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a payment by results model which means that companies will not be able to fully recover their cost until they place sufficient numbers of jobseekers into sustainable jobs. Therefore the overall cost of JobPath will be determined by the number of people who participate in the programme and the number who get sustainable jobs. The payments made are in respect of registration...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...disadvantage and promoting social inclusion in the labour market) was appointed to provide the Department with expert advice and assistance relating to the design and delivery of an employment service model (“JobPath”) Based on its knowledge of the operation of contracted employment services in other States, CESI provided advice with regard to the design of the JobPath...

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

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 372 and 373 together. As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is a new approach to employment activation designed to support long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, have been contracted by the Department to deliver the JobPath service. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a payment by results model and all initial costs and the ongoing operational costs are borne by the companies. Payments made to the service providers are only in respect of registration fees, for persons engaging with the service, and fees for sustained employment outcomes. My Department does not publish the individual fees to providers because of commercial sensitivity. This...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is a payment by results model. All initial set up costs and the ongoing running costs are borne by the companies. The companies are paid registration fees and job sustainment fees. A registration fee may be claimed only when a jobseeker has developed a personal progression plan. Job sustainment fees are payable for each 13-week period of sustained employment, up to a maximum of 52...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The survey of JobPath candidates formed part of a single contract covering a 2016 customer satisfaction survey of both JobPath candidates and of jobseeker users of standard Intreo services. Taking account of the numbers surveyed in the different respondent categories, the amount of the contract charge attributable to the JobPath element of the survey was €58,500 before VAT, or...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Following the completion of a rigorous public procurement process, conducted in accordance with EU and national procurement rules, Turas Nua is one of two companies selected to provide the JobPath service. The JobPath Agreement between my Department and Turas Nua Limited was signed on 5 June 2015. Turas Nua is a joint venture between FRS Recruitment and Working Links: FRS Recruitment, part...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: My Department provides a range of activation supports for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. These supports include JobPath and employment programmes such as Community Employment (CE) schemes and Tús. The JobPath service is provided for jobseekers only. JobPath aims to place people into full-time sustainable employment. The period of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 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: Youth Unemployment Measures (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...programmes/workplace based interventions such as CE, Gateway and Tús and First Steps; or in subsidies to employers, through JobsPlus Youth. Long-term unemployed jobseekers under 25 are also referred to JobPath, a contracted, payment-by-results employment services that provides additional resources and supports to those long-term unemployed. The strategy documentPathways to Work 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...x2019;s social fabric. In recognition of the vital role played by the voluntary community, my Department operates a Voluntary Work Option for customers on the Jobseeker schemes. Customers engaged with the JobPath Service may avail of the voluntary work option provided they continue to satisfy the statutory conditions of being available for and genuinely seeking work. Customers must...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (6 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the qualifying conditions for receipt of this payment, declared herself available for and seeking full time work. To assist her in her efforts to find work she has been referred to her local JobPath provider and she is actively engaging with them at present. She is being paid the appropriate rate of jobseekers allowance for a person in her circumstances. If she is unfit for work...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Review (5 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: Nobody is taken off CE or Tús to participate in JobPath. We do not allow people who have been referred to JobPath to chop and change from one scheme or programme to another. We have never allowed that and we do not propose to do so. A participant in a programme or scheme should complete it. For all sorts of reasons we do not want people changing mid-stream from one scheme or...