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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: To be clear, JobPath is not a job placement service. The providers are contracted to provide employment assistance and to support jobseekers. It is important to say that a review of JobPath has been carried out and that the OECD evaluation, which is completely independent, showed that, overall, those who participate on JobPath have better employment outcomes and earnings than those who are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...the pandemic. There are currently 363,000 people on the PUP and another 177,000 on the live register. There are a number of different approaches to this. There are the local employment services, JobPath and the Intreo offices. As we face challenges and as the restrictions are lifted and people get back to work, I believe there will be challenges for those who do not get their jobs...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...people will not get their jobs back when the economy reopens fully. We want to help them find other jobs. A number of approaches to this work are being taken, including local employment services, JobPath and Intreo. Above all, we do not want to reduce any of those services. With this request for tender, which I hope to publish very shortly, I aim to expand services in areas where we do...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (18 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...process, my Department began engaging with external consultants to review all public employment services (PES), including contracted employment services delivered through EmployAbility, Job Clubs, JobPath and the Local Employment Services. The successful tender, a joint bid by the Institute for Employment Studies and Social Finance, both UK-based non-profit bodies, reviewed the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (11 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...provides a range of employment supports for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service. The range of factors to be considered when applying a reduced rate of payment preclude me from making a definitive statement that the sole context involved in the application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (11 May 2021)

Heather Humphreys: To date the total amount paid to those providing the JobPath service is €259.6m. The yearly spend on JobPath is provided in the following table. Year Expenditure 2015 €1.2m 2016 €25.2m 2017 €57.4m 2018 €71.7m 2019 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Jobseekers currently engaged on a Community Employment (CE) scheme are not eligible for selection for the JobPath service. When a person completes a period of Community Employment they can avail of my Department's Intreo service for advice and assistance in gaining employment. Should they make a claim for a Jobseeker's payment after completing CE, they will become eligible for referral...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The JobPath service provides employment assistance and advice to customers referred to the service by my Department for a 52 week period. Should a customer secure employment during this engagement period the JobPath service also provides in-work support to these customers. However, should the customer subsequently lose their employment within their original 52 week engagement period they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (28 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...and in receipt of a jobseeker's payment from my Department, are required to be genuinely seeking and available for full time employment and to engage with my Department's employment services.  JobPath is an employment assistance and advice service that supports and assists people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part time, to secure...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...Service for providing employment assistance and advice services to all jobseekers and members of the public who require these services. Contracted providers such as the Local Employment Services and JobPath provide my Department with the capacity to support the long term unemployed with the provision of 52 weeks of employment services support. Given the scale of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: On Monday 28th December 2020 new referrals to all contracted employment service providers including JobPath were suspended. As on previous occasions all contracted employment service providers continued to engage with their existing caseloads during these periods of suspensions of new referrals. . Mindful of the need to support the unemployed and given the labour market impacts arising from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1172 to 1174, inclusive, together. In parallel with the Intreo service, the Department's contracted public employment services, including JobPath and the Local Employment Services, resumed new referrals on 8th March 2021. Resuming referrals reflects the importance of continuing to engage with the long term unemployed and other cohorts to ensure they do not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath provides employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed on behalf of my Department. On 22 October 2020, I announced an extension of referrals to the JobPath service for a further twelve months until the end of 2021. There will be a run out period for the contract after new referrals have ceased. At that time I also announced similar extensions to the Local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...should have no difficulty in putting forward a good bid. I want to be very clear on that. There is a multifaceted approach to our employment services with the three different strands of Intreo, JobPath and the LES. That is important to say. This is absolutely not a drive to reduce costs. I want to be clear on that. The focus is on expanding the quality of the provision in the best...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commencement of Legislation (31 Mar 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...Minister shall review the operation of the Tús scheme, in particular, the possibility of allowing Tús scheme participants to extend their participation on the scheme beyond one year with their host group whilst also participating on JobPath. The Minister shall bring forward a report on same within 3 months of this Bill being enacted. A report was prepared and submitted to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (24 Mar 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies contracted to deliver the JobPath service, as part of the State's Public Employment Service. JobPath provides employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed in order to assist them secure full-time paid employment. JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies under the JobPath contract to provide, as part of the State's Public Employment Service, employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed in order to assist them secure full-time paid employment. On 22 October 2020, I announced the extension of referrals to the JobPath service for a further twelve months until the end of 2021. At that time I...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies under the JobPath contract to provide, as part of the State's Public Employment Service, employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed in order to assist them secure full-time paid employment. On 22 October 2020, I announced the extension of referrals to the JobPath service for a further twelve months until the end of 2021. At that time I...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (11 Feb 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is now 62 years of age and he will no longer be selected for Activation through Intreo and he will not be selected for Jobpath. He can however contact a Case Officer at his own request if he has any queries on courses or TSG ( Training Support Grant ) funding, whilst he is receiving a Jobseekers Allowance payment. I trust this clarifies the position for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jan 2021)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath provides long term unemployed Jobseekers with access to an employment assistance and advice service for a period of 12 months. JobPath providers are paid on the basis of performance and, with the exception of the initial registration fee; payments are made only when a client achieves sustained, full-time employment. Job Sustainment Fees are payable for each 13 week period of...