Results 121-140 of 145 for jobpath speaker:Heather Humphreys

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...development and guidance service, with the ultimate goal of securing employment. - Increasing the capacity of contracted services by extending existing contracts for Local Employment Services, Jobpath and Employability into 2021 to ensure business continuity and services are in place to deal with increased demand. - Expanding the benefit of the JobsPlus recruitment subsidy to employers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Inquiries (1 Dec 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...Relay Services MailJet SAAS Limited 23/02/2018 €36,540.00 Services ICT Resources to work in the Statistics and Business Intelligence team on the Evaluation of the JobPath Contracted Public Employment Service Deloitte 05/03/2018 €53,250.00 Services Microsoft Premier Support Agreement ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: .../case management service is provided directly by the Department’s own staff and also by staff employed in contracted service providers – including the Local Employment Services (LES) and JobPath providers. In general, the Department’s own case officers engage with people who are short term unemployed while those who are more distant from the labour market,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...advisor/case management service is provided directly by the Department's own staff and also by staff employed in contracted service providers - including the Local Employment Service (LES) and JobPath providers. In general, the Department's own case officers engage with people who are short term unemployed while those who are more distant from the labour market, including long term...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 546, 548 and 551 together. JobPath companies are paid on the basis of performance and,with the exception of the initial registration fee, payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment. 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...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...them. Discussions are ongoing between my Department and his. We hope that we will be able to find a resolution to this long-running issue and are working hard on that. I take the Deputies' concerns about JobPath on board. The OECD has worked with my Department to measure the effectiveness of JobPath. The findings, which were published last year, indicated that weekly earnings for...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...have other income. We can go through this again and I am happy to hear and look at the suggestions of the committee members. I know what they are saying and I have seen it myself. To go back to JobPath, there are 201,000 people on the live register and a further 340,000 people are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment. The economic impact of the pandemic has certainly...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: To date, more than 64,000 jobseekers have commenced employment during their engagement period with JobPath.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (3 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy will be aware the primary goal of my Department’s activation services including the JobPath service, is to move people from full-time and part-time unemployment to full-time and sustained employment. Once a jobseeker is referred to JobPath, they must complete the requisite time with the service. This is necessary to allow the jobseeker to get the optimum benefit and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (15 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Referrals to all activation services, including those provided by the JobPath providers, were suspended in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In parallel with the Intreo service, our contracted public employment services, including JobPath and the Local Employment Services, resumed activation for new referrals in June. My officials were in contact with the various contracted employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (1 Oct 2020)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath provides the long term unemployed an employment service. This service seeks to support the long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited on behalf of my Department.  Between July 2015 and the end of August 2020, some 276,149 jobseekers had engaged with the JobPath service. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath provides employment service support to jobseekers. It is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies.  The companies are paid on the basis of performance and, with the exception of the initial registration fee, payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment.  The overall cost of JobPath will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (22 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In December 2019, my Department engaged with external consultants in order to undertake a review of all current contracted Public Employment Services (PES), including JobPath. The consultants' research, recently completed, will help inform the Government's approach on the future structure of all contracted PES. I expect that the final report will be formally submitted to me shortly. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (22 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In December 2019, my Department engaged with external consultants in order to undertake a review of all current contracted Public Employment Services (PES), including JobPath. The consultants' research, recently completed, will help inform the Government's approach on the future structure of all contracted PES. I expect that the final report will be formally submitted to me shortly. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (8 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 740 and 741 together. 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. Information is shared by my Department with the JobPath providers to enable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The JobPath contract contains provisions for early termination, notwithstanding any dispute which may arise and which is covered elsewhere in the contract. Written notice must be served on the contractor 6 months in advance of a termination.  The amount of compensation to be paid to the service providers is stipulated in the contract.  However, the amount of compensation,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: All labour activation referrals, including JobPath, were suspended in March 2020 in accordance with public health guidelines. Engagement continued during this period by phone, email and other remote means, where possible. Referrals to contracted public employment services gradually recommenced from mid-June.  The pause in referrals to JobPath from March to June 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath provides a case management based employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. To date, some 61,626 jobseekers have commenced employment during their engagement period with JobPath.  39,531 had sustained employment for 13 weeks, 31,523 for 26 weeks, 25,471 for 39 weeks and 20,881 for 52 weeks. It should be noted that many clients who are currently...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In the normal course of business the JobPath service providers will regularly submit non-engagement notifications to the Department. This is an administrative function which is not necessarily indicative of any particular outcome. In the majority of cases the client will be contacted and the appointment will be rescheduled. Some clients may have multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by my Department’s own Case Officers, or those contracted through the Local Employment Service (LES), or by the JobPath providers.  However contracted providers cannot and do not apply penalty rates but are obliged to report the facts and circumstances of a case to a Deciding...