John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have been selected for JobPath since its inception. [18189/16]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to Turas Nua through JobPath, by county, in tabular form. [18190/16]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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275. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to Seetec through JobPath, by county, in tabular form. [18191/16]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have obtained employment through Turas Nua, by county, in tabular form. [18192/16]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have obtained employment through Seetec, by county, in tabular form. [18193/16]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid to Turas Nua since it was selected to deliver JobPath. [18194/16]

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid to Seetec since it was selected to deliver JobPath. [18195/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 273 to 279, inclusive, together.

As the Deputy will be aware JobPath is a new approach to employment activation designed to support long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, have been contracted by the Department to deliver the JobPath service.

The table provides a breakdown of referrals by company and by county:

Note: both companies deliver JobPath services in different parts of Galway, Offaly & Kildare.

Clients receive support for 52 weeks but this period may continue for up to 130 weeks e.g. where a person engages in further education/training (for up to 26 weeks) and receives “in work” support (for up to 52 weeks). The rollout of JobPath commenced in July 2015 on a “soft-launch” basis. To date no one has completed their engagement with the JobPath service. Detailed analyses of JobPath data will be published later this year. As indicated in “Pathways to Work 2016 – 2020” the Department intends to publish performance statistics of contracted providers including JobPath from Q3 2016.

JobPath is a payment by results model and all initial costs are borne by the companies. JobPath is so structured that the companies will not be able to fully recover their costs until they place sufficient numbers of jobseekers into sustainable jobs. It is not intended to publish the individual payments to the JobPath companies as these are commercially sensitive and to do so would place the State at a disadvantage both in terms of the contracts now in place and any future procurement that may be undertaken.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.