Results 181-200 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (9 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service was launched in 2015 on a ‘rolling basis’ with referral numbers gradually increasing over time. JobPath providers do not apply or recommend the application of a penalty rate of payment. They simply advise the Department if a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...any given time. This number needs to be viewed in the context of circa 150,000 Jobseekers who are engaged with either the Department's internal activation process via the Intreo Service or the external activation process i.e. JobPath and the Local Employment Services at a given time. JobPath providers do not apply or recommend the application of a penalty rate of payment. They simply...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (26 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is designed to support people who are long term unemployed to obtain and sustain employment in the open labour market. The JobPath companies have no role in selection of jobseekers for referral to the service. My Department selects clients for the JobPath service by means of a random selection process and protocols for selection currently preclude the selection of anyone who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...the unemployment numbers are down. If there are more people working, there will be fewer people to do employment activation work. With the height of respect, I know the Deputy desperately feels it is JobPath and other people are telling him that. Because the Deputy so often mentioned that people were being stopped from doing CE when they were on the JobPath programme, I made the changes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: .... I hope that YESS will provide a significant roadmap to ensure we get the figure down to single digits next year. At the end of July, there were approximately 93,000 clients engaged with JobPath, of whom 708, less than 1%, had a current penalty rate applied to their claim. The figure is consistent with the overall level of penalty rate applied across all jobseekers claims. I do not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory and that applies to all activation services provided by the Department including those provided by the contracted providers JobPath; Local Employment Services and Jobs Clubs. JobPath is designed to support people who are long term unemployed to obtain and sustain employment in the open labour market. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware 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. My Department has contracted two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec JobPath, to provide the service. All persons engaged with JobPath may also be eligible for a placement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment service which helps long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service was introduced in 2015 on a "soft launch" basis and was fully operational by mid 2016. In this time, just over 181,000 jobseekers have engaged with the JobPath employment service to date. All customers have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (7 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an approach to employment activation which caters mainly for people who are long-term unemployed (over 12 months) to assist them to secure and sustain full-time paid employment or self-employment. The person concerned is currently in receipt of a Jobseekers Allowance payment of €107.70 p.w. and she has been selected for participation on JobPath. In North Kildare the JobPath...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation initiative designed to support long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment or self-employment. The roll-out of JobPath began in 2015 and to date 160,000 participants have entered JobPath since it was first initialised. All Jobseekers on the live register must be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 555 to 557, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will know the primary purpose of the activation services provided by my Department, including the JobPath service is to assist and support jobseekers to look for and sustain full time employment. People who have been long term unemployed are referred to the JobPath service to receive one-to one intensive support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is a requirement of the JobPath Providers contract with the Department that, in the first instance, the JobPath providers investigate any issues that may arise in respect of the service they provide. Each JobPath Provider has a comprehensive Complaints Procedure which is available in every location. The contact details for both JobPath Providers are as follows: Seetec: A customer can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: Jobpath is an employment activation service to support unemployed jobseekers to secure and sustain full time paid employment or self-employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec are contracted by my Department to deliver the JobPath services. Since 1 June 2018, it is open to persons attending a JobPath provider to take up a position on a Community Employment (CE) scheme on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (5 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: All jobseekers referred to my Department’s activation service, including those referred to the JobPath service, are requested to complete a personal progression plan (PPP) which contains a schedule of activities; actions and job focused targets, taking into account a person’s specific qualifications and employment preferences. The person will be requested to sign the PPP as an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (3 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...2020. Policy continues to focus on support for the long-term unemployed. For example, the Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy prioritises long-term unemployed people – most notably through the roll-out of JobPath to engage more systematically with this group; through targeted wage subsidies under JobsPlus; and through reserved places for long-term unemployed jobseekers on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware the primary purpose of the activation services provided by my Department, including the JobPath service, is to assist and support jobseekers to look for and sustain full time employment. My Department refers long-term job seeking customers to the JobPath service to receive one-to one intensive and regular engagement with a personal adviser. The JobPath companies...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...of Activation services act on behalf of the Department for the purpose of delivering these services and are subject to strict obligations imposed by the Department in terms of data protection. JobPath providers are contractually required to register with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. Data protection legislation requires that personal data shall be kept only for one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of a range of activation supports which includes schemes such as TÚS and Community Employment (CE), catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Activation services are also provided by departmental case officers in the Intreo Centres, or by contracted companies and organisations such as Local Employment Services (LES), Job Clubs and the JobPath providers. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: 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. From 1st June all long term jobseekers who are currently engaged with the JobPath service and those who may be referred in future, have the option of applying for CE and...

Other Questions: Employment Support Services (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...a case of big brother looking over people's shoulders. We have to remember that the individuals in these cases were out of work for more than 12 months in a single period before they were sent to JobPath. There is a reason they were out of work. In many cases, they were out of work because there was no work available in recent years, which is fair enough. Others may have been out of...