Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish the CESI report on activation services commissioned by her Department in 2012; the procurement process the publication could impact upon; and when this is due to be completed. [48454/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Pathways to Work policy statement provided for more regular and on-going engagement with jobseekers to enable them to return to employment through the provision of the most appropriate support interventions. In order to increase its activation capacity the Department examined approaches to complementing and augmenting its own internal capacity and that already provided under existing contracts with the Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Club providers. In this regard, the Department engaged the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI) in 2012 to provide expert advice and assistance with the design, including financial modelling, of a contracted, payment by results, employment service model. It is not intended to publish this report as its contents are commercially sensitive and to do so may disadvantage the State in negotiations with current and potential providers.

The CESI report informed the design of JobPath. Following a procurement process conducted in accordance with EU and Irish procurement rules, preferred tenderers have been selected for the provision of the JobPath programme. The preferred tenderers are Seetec Business Technology Centre Limited and Turas Nua Limited. The Department is currently in the process of finalising contracts with the preferred tenderers and it is expected that the JobPath programme will commence in mid-2015.