Results 81-100 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...facing some people now were not even around ten or 15 years ago. There will be an array of services, but they will not be in competition with one another. We do not sit down and say that JobPath is better than the community employment, CE, scheme. It is not. It is just different. We must model services so that no two organisations, be they contractors for the State, our own people,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...each person's willingness to work and co-operate with the services, assuming those services are tailored to that person's set of needs. Measuring outcomes in CE will not be the same as it is in Tús, JobPath, LES or job clubs. Outcomes are measured in the fulfilment of the person's needs. For some, that might just involve learning the capacity to understand that they need to show up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...staff count, not increasing it. We have enough capacity in the system currently and we do not need to employ any more. Between LES, job clubs, Intreo case officers and the case officers in JobPath, we have just under 800 individual case office managers which is sufficient, on the ratio of 120:1, which is international best practice, to get the best outcomes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: I will clarify that before I continue. Is Deputy Brady referring specifically to any future tender for a JobPath-type activity? Is that what he means regarding the €20 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...people face in the future will be slightly different. For about a year after I became Minister the case was often made to me that the sole reason for the decrease in CE applications was JobPath. We changed the legislation last June to allow anybody on JobPath to be part of a CE scheme, if that is what the person wanted to do. We still have, however, a large number of vacancies on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...to serve, we need many models. I do not know how many times I have to say this before the Deputy will acknowledge our bona fides in what we are trying to do. I am not trying to send everybody to JobPath. There are some people the service does not suit. There are some whom we have not even reached yet and it will not be beneficial to send them to JobPath until we send them to other...

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

Regina Doherty: The JobPath providers are obliged to provide a baseline level of support to each participant but are free to adapt that support in individual cases, provided that it is not unduly onerous. The JobPath contracts provide that a person should not have to travel more than 60 minutes in normal circumstances to attend an appointment. Where a person has transport difficulties, the JobPath Company...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Activation and Family Support Programme (3 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: TESG (Technical Support Grant) is a grant available to customers on internal activation with the Department's Intreo offices and does not apply to customers with JobPath. Participants on JobPath receive intensive individual support to help overcome barriers to employment and to find jobs. Each person is assigned a personal adviser who assesses their skills, experience, challenges and work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (2 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...also required to engage with the Department’s activation services. The Social Welfare (Consolidated) Act 2005, as amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory.  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...

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

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. JobPath 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Meetings (27 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: It should be noted that my Department has no contract for services with Working Links, rather its contract is with Turas Nua for the provision of JobPath services to jobseekers. I have not met with Turas Nua in regard to recent developments concerning Working Links. However, Turas Nua has kept officials from my Department briefed on developments in this area and my officials have sought...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: I can only explain to the Chairman that we probably did not anticipate that JobPath would be as accessible as it was.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: First of all, the purpose of JobPath is not only to get somebody a job. It is to make sure that he or she keeps it and that we support him or her. It is a holistic service. It is not only about getting somebody his or her CV, sitting the person in front of an employer and making sure he or she gets the job. It is making sure the person maintains sustainability within employment. That...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Initiatives (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...to improve their prospects of employment. The jobseekers activation process includes a range of approaches including referral to job vacancies, education and training supports and nomination to JobPath, Local Employment Services and direct employment schemes such as TUS and Community Employment. Entitlement to jobseeker payments is dependent on participation in the activation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...is very aware of the need to have adequate data protection policies, procedures and structures in place in line with current data protection legislation. My Department’s contracts with the JobPath providers are in compliance with all relevant legislation and any information shared is contractually based and necessary to provide a service. All contracts in place are governed by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...;s activation service now needs to work with this individual to ensure that the benefits of the experience and training that they received during their time on CE are maximised. The individual has started with Jobpath where they will receive one-to-one, intensive and regular engagement with a personal adviser who will assess their skills, experience, challenges and work goals and assist...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...also required to engage with the Department’s activation services. The Social Welfare (Consolidated) Act 2005, as amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory. JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed, including those in casual or part time employment. People referred to the JobPath service are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (12 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...part time and in receipt of Jobseeker payments from my Department are required to be actively seeking and available for full time employment and to engage with my Department's activation services JobPath provides an intensive personal activation service, which focuses on the skills and experience of each person. In the case of people already in part-time employment, this may focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...activation opportunities, including implementing sanctions for failure to engage.   The legislation underpinning the application of penalty rates is provided for in the Social Welfare Act, 2010. JobPath providers and other contracted services cannot in any circumstances apply a penalty rate or recommend that a penalty rate be applied.  Seetec and Turas Nua inform the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: This evaluation of the JobPath public employment service is being carried out in the context of a partnership between my Department and the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  The final outputs of the project will be (1) the publication of a DEASP report; (2) the publication of a joint...