Results 41-60 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...case officer cannot decide what is best for the person without the person’s input. It is purely an administrative document to provide a plan to work forward a year in Tús, three years in community employment, a year with JobPath and, hopefully, less than a year with an Intreo case officer. It is only an administrative document but the most important element of it is that it...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...one, a progression plan is agreed and he or she goes home at 4 p.m. It is a flowing document. We are here as the services of the State in all our forms from the ILDN, Irish local development network, JobPath, jobs clubs, LES, local employment service, community employment, Tús, rural social scheme, Seetec and Turas Nua to help people get work or trained to be able to get work. It...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (24 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...programmes/workplace based interventions such as Community Employment and Tús; 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 service that provides additional resources and case managed supports to those long-term unemployed. In October 2018, I introduced a new...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver the service. The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers was to run for at least six years comprising two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver the service. The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers was to run for at least six years comprising two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is a case management service that provides employment counselling and advice to long-term unemployed jobseekers with a view to improving their prospects of securing sustained employment.  It complements the case management services provided directly by the Department's own staff via Intreo and via other contracted providers such as the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part-time and those at risk of becoming long-term unemployed, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment.  All jobseekers over one year on the Live Register are eligible for selection for the JobPath service and clients are chosen by means of a random selection...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...of service covering frequency of engagement, personal progression planning, geographic accessibility and in-employment support. On-site inspections are carried out as part of the monitoring of JobPath contractor performance. As at end of June 2019, a total of 50 on-site inspections have been carried out at Seetec  service delivery locations around the country and these will...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Two separate issues have been raised. In response to Deputy Martin Kenny, JobPath is there to help people who are unemployed or under-employed. As I do not know the person in the case raised by the Deputy, I assume he is presenting as available for work on the other two days. If he is available for work and is claiming a jobseeker's benefit payment, then we are obliged to help him get work...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...are nuances in every scheme. If Deputy Kenny will do me a favour and give me the gentleman's name I will see what I can do in the particular circumstances. In response to Deputy Fitzpatrick, JobPath is a Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection scheme. Part of our activation is to use training to put people through whatever measures will help them to get them closer to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...goal of the Department’s activation services is to move people from long-term unemployment to full-time and sustained 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 who will assess their skills, experience, challenges and work goals and agree a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based employment advice and counseling service to long-term unemployed jobseekers. This is the group of jobseekers facing the most significant barriers to secure and sustain full-time employment. Between July 2015 and May 2019, some 227,590 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service. Of this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (26 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is awarded Jobseeker's Allowance from 5 November 2018. The person concerned was referred to the Jobpath programme on 4 March 2019 for activation support over the course of a 12 month period. The Jobpath provider is Seetec Ltd, and he attends the local Seetec Office. On the 12 June 2019, the person concerned, (through Seetec) requested an appointment with Coolock Intreo...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...a range of activation supports catering 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 primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. This is the group of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (18 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...a range of activation supports catering 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 Local Employment Service, Job Clubs, Tús and Community Employment (CE). The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (11 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver this service. The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers, will run for at least six years. This includes a period...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...customer re-engages with the Department’s activation service the sanctions will be lifted immediately and normal payment restored. As at the end of April 2019, there were 75,000 customers engaged with JobPath of which 487, or 0.6%, had a penalty rate applied to their Jobseeker’s claim. This figure is consistent with the overall level of penalty rates applied across all...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (30 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...that Tús and CE schemes could not find applicants. We also made them in light of the lobbying done for many months by the good Deputies present, including Deputy Brady. We provided that people on JobPath could be available to go to Tús to see if that was what they wanted to do. That has been the case for some time.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers will run for at least six years.  This includes a period of at least four years of client referrals to the end of 2019, and a run off period of at least two years.  The contract includes an option to extend the term of referrals for a period of up to two years beyond the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (30 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...programmes/workplace based interventions such as Community Employment and Tús; 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 service that provides additional resources and case managed supports to those long-term unemployed. In October 2018, I introduced a new...