Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is necessary for a person who is applying for a community employment scheme to attend a Seetec or JobPath programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30892/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Jobpath is an employment activation service to support unemployed jobseekers to secure and sustain full time paid employment or self-employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec are contracted by my Department to deliver the JobPath services.

Since 1 June 2018, it is open to persons attending a JobPath provider to take up a position on a Community Employment (CE) scheme on the condition that they commit to continued engagement with the provider. The JobPath provider will take the CE participants work pattern into account for their engagement with them. By facilitating a person to take up a position on CE while attending the JobPath provider, it maximises the assistance and services available to them through a combination of a quality work placement and personalised job-seeking support provided through the JobPath service.

If a person is not attending the JobPath provider when they take up a placement on CE, they are not currently obligated to attend a JobPath provider on taking up their placement.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.