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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Denis Naughten: ..., we will have the opportunity to question senior officials from the Department of Social Protection on these changes and get a description of the regional employment service tendering process, comparable results achieved by JobPath, Intreo-based services, jobs clubs and the local employment service, and the reason behind the new phased procurement process. Witnesses are reminded of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

..., for example, Intreo, are delivered directly by the State. Others, including jobs clubs, employability and local employment services, are delivered by community organisations on a cost-met basis, while JobPath and others are operated by private agencies under payment-by-results contracts. The premise on which the current service provided by community, cost-met providers is based is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

.... At present, there are three models in the provision of public employment services in Ireland. These include the Intreo services, provided by direct employees of the Department of Social Protection and JobPath, provided by two private for-profit companies, Seetec and Turas Nua. In April 2019, the Dáil voted by a margin of 81 to 42 to close this model. It has been extended twice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...employment services are jobseekers. How will the Department widen that and is that its plan? The document before us features a table showing the number of people who have taken up employment through JobPath. Clearly, the only outcome that is taken into account when the Department looks at local employment services, jobs clubs and JobPath is a job. Any job is the basis of the outcome....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

.... It is difficult to present. The stats for each of the services are compiled differently because performance in each service is registered differently. We do not compare them across. With JobPath, what counts is somebody gets and sustains a job. We track that person through from the date he or she commences the service. Local employment services do not do that. It is much rawer in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Mark Wall: ...to formulate policy on that? Mr. Egan might come back to us on a policy in that regard. Second, in Mr. Egan's description of what may be contained in RFT 2, he said it was the inverse of the JobPath model. To me, what he described is what is happening in jobs clubs and local employment networks at the moment. Why are we going down this road? Why are we not ensuring and developing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

...with a single metric for what that value is, but we believe we have reflected that value in the structure of the RFT under phase 1. I do not see a direct comparison with the figure of €311 for the JobPath referral, but I may I have mistaken that point. If I have, I am happy to clarify.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... The issue is that the local employment service and jobs clubs focus on the hardest to reach and those who are most remote from the labour market to encourage them to enter those services. JobPath has had success after success. Obviously, it focused on the people most likely to get jobs and, in many cases, those people would probably have jobs in any event. I have two specific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

...journey does and will involve progression into employment, education or employment support programmes, not only employment. That has been reflected in the regional employment service RFT. Regarding the JobPath focus on those who are most likely to be placed, I accept the temptation is to see it that way but the contract we have with both JobPath providers, Turas Nua, which is a farm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...mentioned earlier, be provided to the committee. The Department can redact pricing and whatever else it may wish to. Is the Department willing to do that? I referred to the table showing figures for JobPath - I understand what the committee looked for - because JobPath is different in that it regards 13 weeks as a job being sustained. If the Department is saying 24,000 people sustained...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Mr. Niall Egan: I thank the Deputy. I ask Mr. Kane to address the JobPath queries and then I will come back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Mr. Niall Egan: To add to what Mr. Kane has said, it is important to acknowledge that JobPath was procured to provide an unemployment service and assistance for 12 months' duration. That is the metric we need to use. It is the same with our other service partners. Looking at just the long-term, 12-month job sustainment level would be too narrow a focus in relation to the overall supported...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...fairly fast. Has any analysis been done on how many of the 20,000 people who secured long-term employment and the 70,000 people who secured short-term employment would have secured employment if JobPath not existed? That is the true value of JobPath. It is not the number who managed to get a job because from my experience of the world, it is fair to surmise that different people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Mr. Niall Egan: I thank the Deputy. We provided a copy of the econometric review conducted by the Department and the OECD into JobPath. That, I think, provides the answers he is looking for. Very briefly, we undertook a review of the performance of JobPath. JobPath only deals with the long-term unemployed, so the short-term cohort was not covered. We examined individuals and broke them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

...through the Department’s Intreo service comprising its own staff working in Intreo centres, together with our external service partners, including the local employment service, jobs clubs, JobPath service providers and Employ Ability. Support is delivered through Intreo case officers and our service partners engaging with individuals on a one-to-one basis to identify their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

..., carers or other individuals. That mechanism is placed within the existing request for tender and we see that continuing into the second phase. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Kane, to talk about the JobPath referrals. On the Deputy's question regarding the figure of 70,740, that is total employment from JobPath. The figure for sustained employment for a 12-month period is approximately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Mr. Chris Kane: On the whole, that is what is set out in the paper, and it is correct. However, it is important to note that, again, JobPath rates are recorded on a basis of cohort and when somebody is referred. There is performance that is not recorded, so we do not fully know the position. Of the people who are engaged with JobPath, many of the 312,000 people who have agreed a personal...