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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: All schemes and services, whether community employment, Tús or JobPath, are paid by participant. The payment model may be different, but they are all paid by participant. We do not allow in any case people to chop and change from one programme to another while on it. We can imagine how difficult it would be to organise services if people could chop and change from one to the next two...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...to get into full-time paid employment of 30 hours a week, which they sustain for more than three months. The results so far are very good. What we now see are many people who have spent a year on JobPath and who have not found full-time employment. Those people are all eligible for community employment. A greater effort needs to be made by the Department and community employment...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Our supervisor is doing a great job, but he is ringing social welfare offices and everybody else but cannot get them. There is a huge logjam. The spirit of what is supposed to be done by JobPath is fine, but it involves private companies. It is regressive. The forerunner of one of the companies had difficulties in England. My colleague, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, wanted to ask this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...arises if somebody finds full-time employment and stays in it for more than three months. Certainly if there are community employment schemes and local employment services which want to move to the JobPath model of funding I will be happy to entertain it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: I apologise. Turas Nua Limited is one of two companies which my Department contracted for the delivery of JobPath services. Turas Nua is headquartered in Roscrea, County Tipperary, where it employs 39 people. The aim of the service is to assist jobseekers in finding sustainable full-time employment. This is in contrast to the community employment schemes which provide part-time...