Results 101-120 of 241 for jobpath speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (21 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: All jobseekers referred to JobPath must have been registered as unemployed and available for work for at least 12 months. Participation with the JobPath service is mandatory as is the case for the activation services provided for jobseekers by Intreo and the Local Employment Services I understand that the customer has not yet informed my Department regarding his ill health and I have asked...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Employment Service (7 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...for 2017 at the 2016 levels of €20 million. The LES is one element of the overall activation service being delivered by my Department, which also includes our own Intreo service and the contracted JobPath service. They each provide unemployed jobseekers with advice and assistance to identify, pursue and secure employment. In addition, local employment services provide activation...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (7 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed (over 12 months) and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Contractors are paid via a combination of an initial registration fee and thereafter only on the basis of job sustainment fees: which are only paid in respect of each period of 13...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Participants on JobPath receive intensive individual support to help them to tackle barriers to employment and to assist them in finding jobs. Each person is assigned to a personal adviser who assesses...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The customer the Deputy refers to is currently engaged with the JobPath service and has been since August 2016, as part of this he has agreed a Personal Progression Plan with his personal advisor. The JobPath service provides intensive individual support and advice to help customers find full time sustainable employment. If the customer is successful in finding a suitable job, the company...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (28 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 428 to 431, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a 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. To date, 78,000 people have started their engagement period with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (28 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 446 to 448, inclusive, together. The activation supports and services which are available to those who are long-term unemployed include the JobPath employment activation service and work experience and training schemes such as Community Employment (CE) and TÚS. The JobPath service procured by my department provides additional resources to enable it to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The JobPath contracts provide that a customer should not have to travel more than 60 minutes in normal circumstances to attend an appointment. Where a customer has transport difficulties the JobPath Provider may assist the customer with travel arrangements including the reimbursement of reasonable travel costs. Seetec currently have 29 full-time and 20 part-time offices throughout their...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...will note from yesterday's figures that the quarterly national household survey shows that long-term unemployment in Ireland is now below 4%. Everything we are doing, whether Intreo services or JobPath services, is now being proven to be enormously successful in getting people into employment. The Deputy is right to say that community employment, CE, schemes and others are having...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (22 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...’s Public Employment Service (PES) is managed by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) 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. It is the role of the staff of these services to provide Jobseekers with a range of practical supports and assistance to help...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (22 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: .... Eligibility for participation on the RSS is limited to those in receipt of certain specified social welfare payments and all participants must also be actively engaged in farming or fishing. The JobPath service is provided for jobseekers only. The period of engagement with JobPath for any individual is typically 52 weeks. During that time, they receive intensive individual...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...they should stick with that and not change to another one until they have completed it. If somebody has a start date within four weeks with CE or Tús, then they can take that up, even if they are referred to JobPath.

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...person has a start date, however, within four weeks for a Tús or CE placement, then he or she can take it up. We would like to move to a position where people who are unemployed would go through JobPath first, but this is still in transition. If they were unable to secure employment on their own or with the assistance of JobPath after that, then they would become eligible for CE and...

Other Questions: Rural Social Scheme (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...younger people. I always get Tús and CE mixed up on the minimum age criteria. The minimum age is 25 for one of the schemes and 21 for the other. We have young people who have spent a year on JobPath and have not got a job. It would make more sense for them to move to CE after this than to return to JobPath. I am considering this as a possible change. Perhaps this is not true,...

Other Questions: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...Many CE schemes are run by private companies. I am not sure what the Deputy referred to. The activation supports and services which are available to those who are long-term unemployed include the JobPath employment activation service and work experience and training schemes such as CE and Tús. The JobPath service procured by my Department provides additional resources to enable...

Priority Questions: Labour Activation Projects (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: .... The number of people participating in schemes, including community employment schemes, Tús, Gateway and the rural social scheme, RSS, grew from 25,000 in 2010 to 37,000 in 2016. If we add JobPath to that, we are talking about 97,000 people on schemes and with services. We have seen an almost fourfold increase in schemes and services at a time when unemployment has halved. It...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: 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 over the period mid-2015 to July 2016, as a result the first...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: 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 Ltd and Turas Nua Ltd. For the purposes of the JobPath service all long-term unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (21 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the department’s own case officers or those employed by the Local Employment Service or by JobPath companies. In general the department’s activation services provide jobseekers with assistance to find employment in their chosen area of work and if this is not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (21 Feb 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. Pathways to Work 2016 to 2020 sets...