Results 141-160 of 391 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: .... All CE participants age 55 and over can avail of 3 consecutive years on a CE scheme. Since 1st June, I am also facilitating persons to take up a placement on CE while also attending their JobPath provider. Participants over age 62 are allowed to participate on a continuous basis up to the State Pension age on the CE Service Support Stream (SSS), subject to availability of places on...

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

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 services that provides additional resources and supports to the long-term unemployed. The table below displays the number of new...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...their exact entitlements and to get them on their social welfare payment immediately, but also to look at their skills, work with the Intreo offices and local jobs organisations and liaise with JobPath people to see what positions are available locally to try to get people back to work as quickly as possible. I will include the Deputy in correspondence on the matter this week.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department provides a range of activation supports to enable persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment, to move to full-time employment with a sustainable income. These supports include the JobPath Service, which was launched in July 2015. JobPath provides an intensive personal service which focuses on the skills and experience of each person. To date, just over 195,000 clients have...

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

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 an employment service, which helps long-term unemployed people to secure and sustain paid employment. The service was launched in 2015 on a ‘rolling...

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

Regina Doherty: ...to enable persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment, including people who are also in part-time employment, to move to full-time employment with a sustainable income.  These supports include the JobPath Service, which was launched in July 2015. JobPath provides an intensive personal service which focuses on the skills and experience of each person.  In the case of clients...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (11 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: .... Number of Activation Clients notified as being in employment of 30+ hours per week. Number of Activation ‘other’ clients notified as being in employment of 30+ hours per week 2016 7,458* 1,153 2017 4,923* 991 To date 2018 4,800* 973 *Unlike JobPath there is no requirement for the client to be 'off benefit' in order to qualify as a placement.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (11 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...jobs being created by economic recovery. The strategy includes some additional actions, which are ongoing or have been completed, in relation to addressing long-term and youth unemployment: - the roll out of JobPath to engage more systematically with this group; the JobPath service has provided activation support to over 180,000 long term jobseekers since its inception in 2015....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...than anticipated. Our spend with An Post went up this year, so I hope that will be reflected in next year's figures. The figure for the medical certificates is €22,250,000. The figure for JobPath was estimated at €48,800,000, and the Revised Supplementary Estimate is €71,698,000, which is the increase of €22,895,000. Therein lies the increase in that one....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...First, there are fewer people on the live register than there used to be so fewer people are available to apply for the scheme in the first instance. Based on the contributions of the members who were of the view that JobPath was hampering people in applying for CE places, we allowed anybody who was on JobPath this summer to do both. That has not resulted in a significant increase in the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...,000 people who are full-time unemployed, as announced this morning by the CSO, are going to be in a number of years but we will have to devise schemes to make sure that they are as successful as JobPath has been for us in recent years, but that might change. Any changes in that route will come from the econometric review that we have done on JobPath but the Deputy is aware that I have...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy will see that if we go to tender next year for the new JobPath. What it does show clearly is that, for the hundreds of thousands of people who have had the experience of going through it, a very large percentage - an enormously successful percentage - with the exception of JobBridge, which people in Deputy Brady's party did not appreciate for a number of years, it has been the...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...so little ambition for people who are only in their mid-fifties. This morning at the Committee of Public Accounts the Government was being lashed because we are sending people for a second year on JobPath, yet some people are quite happy, week in, week out, to beg and plead for an extra six, seven, eight and nine years on CE schemes. Now the Deputy wants 12 years. These are activation...

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

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

Regina Doherty: .... In accepting payment of JobSeeker's Benefit or Assistance, the customer agrees to avail himself/herself of the appropriate support measures on offer during the course of the activation process. JobPath is an employment activation service, which 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 Implementation (27 Nov 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. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, have been contracted by my Department to deliver JobPath services. All jobseekers are referred to a JobPath service location which is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...services provided by my Department is to enable persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment who are also in part time employment to move to full-time employment with a sustainable income. JobPath provides an intensive personal service which focuses on the skills and experience of each person. In the case of clients already in part-time employment this would, in the first instance,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (15 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...YESS will be eligible to avail of the Training Support Grant (TSG) of up to €500 on two occasions during a 12 month period where deemed necessary. This will also apply to jobseekers who are engaged with JobPath and who go on to pursue a YESS placement. The scheme will provide a supportive structure for participants, including case officer support for both placement hosts and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of our more successful activation services. It supports the long-term unemployed in securing and sustaining full-time paid employment. Jobseekers are referred to the service by means of a selection process. A person who has previously completed a year with JobPath is referred back to an Intreo case officer. This is in-house, so to speak. If after six months, he or she...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy has an ideological problem with JobPath. To answer his question, it is interesting that the vast majority of representations I receive from Deputies ask me to intervene directly with people on community employment schemes for a number of years and who desperately want to stay on them for a number of years. It is one of our successful activation processes. A large number of...