Results 121-140 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the important role that the JobPath service has played, and continues to play, in the provision of activation services to the long-term unemployed. Deputies have seen and heard the countermotion tabled by the Government and I wholeheartedly endorse its wording. The Government and its immediate predecessor have worked tirelessly to address...

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

Regina Doherty: My Department is currently working closely with the OECD to finalise a detailed econometric review of JobPath to gauge its effectiveness as means of labour activation for the long-term unemployed. This work is in its final stages and it is intended that it will be published once completed.

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

Regina Doherty: There are no barriers to the way by which jobseekers can source employment. The JobPath service helps and supports their clients to identify and pursue suitable job opportunities themselves and the personal adviser will provide any appropriate support that the person may require, from preparing their CV and assisting with the job application to financial assistance for clothing or transport...

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

Regina Doherty: My Department oversees the overall procurement process for JobPath. In this context, my Department is continually engaged in ensuring all contracted public employment services are fit for purpose. No formal tendering process for 2020 is currently underway and no final decisions have been made in this regard. My Department will continue to consult with the relevant stakeholders to ensure...

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

Regina Doherty: The JobPath service is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part time, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. All jobseekers in receipt of a Jobseeker's payment from my Department are required to be available for and seeking full time employment. In the case of clients already in part-time employment, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: 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 who will assess their skills, experience,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (29 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...the cycle of unemployment, provide work experience and improve a person’s chances of returning to the labour market. As the Deputy is aware, customers of my Department who are engaged with the JobPath service have, from 1st June 2018, the option of taking up a placement on Community Employment (CE) and Tús while continuing to engage with the JobPath service. This change...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (29 Jan 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. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...undertaken where 121 unemployed persons had been interviewed as part of their research into experiences of unemployment. 25 of those who partook in the research reported an experience of the JobPath programme. It is unclear from the statements made as to the degree to which those interviewed reflect a representative sample of service users upon which the conclusions and recommendations...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (29 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department oversees the procurement for JobPath , the Local Employment Services (LES) and Jobs Clubs.The LES and Job Clubs are currently on annual contracts which are reviewed on an ongoing basis. The contracts for JobPath are due to expire at end-2019, with some contractual provisions for extension, although this is not envisaged at this point. In this context, my Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (22 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...apply to Jobseeker’s Allowance customers aged 26 years and over is €44.00 per week.For those age 25 years old the penalty rate is €33.00 per week and for those aged 18-24 years the rate is €25.00. The introduction of the JobPath service in mid-2015 has complemented my Department’s existing activation services and has facilitated a very...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath employment service commenced in July 2015 and the contracts are for six years comprising two consecutive phases: phase one entails four years’ of client referrals, while phase two entails a ‘run off’ period during which time no additional clients will be referred. Therefore client referrals will cease on 31st December 2019 and the contracts will terminate in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2019 (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...genuinely positive. For me, the single biggest driver and the fastest route out of poverty for a person or family is a job. That is the reason I fight with Deputy John Brady week in and week over JobPath-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: -----but the Deputy raised JobPath. The only people who are charged a penalty relating to JobPath are those who do not show up and engage with the programme that they have signed up for. In exactly the same way, anybody who engages with the live register through our Intreo offices who does not show up and present himself or herself as being available for work does not qualify for this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: 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 already provided by the Department's staff via Intreo and other contracted providers such as the local employment service. JobPath operates on a payment...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is interesting that Sinn Féin knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing. I reiterate that the average cost to the State for the tens of thousands of people who have gone through JobPath is €780 per person. That is the average payment. The average cost per person for other contracted services we use is significantly higher and there is never a peep out of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: I remind the Deputy that JobPath is a case management service that provides unemployed and underemployed people with advice and long-term employment assistance to help them improve their prospects of securing full-time work. That is it in a nutshell. There is no hounding or harassing people after they find full-time work in order to get some other further payment. It is simple. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

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 contracts are for six years, comprising two consecutive phases: phase one entails four years’ of client referrals, while phase two entails a ‘run...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: .... Penalty rates are only applied as a last resort. If dissatisfied with that decision it is open to the Jobseeker to appeal to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. The introduction of the JobPath service in mid-2015 has complemented my Department’s existing activation services and has facilitated a very significant increase in the numbers of Jobseekers to whom activation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (19 Dec 2018)

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