Results 21-40 of 86 for jobpath speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme when it ceases; if findings from a review will be used to inform the design and scaling up of job activation and employment services as set out in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14842/22]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...local employment services, and that could have been done without totally changing the model. We have seen what happens when profit is involved and private companies come in. We have seen it with JobPath, with a success rate of 6.8% as regards people gaining employment that lasts for one year. That has been at a massive cost, more than €250 million of taxpayers' money, for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (9 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...is no requirement to change the model. We are removing the community, not-for-profit basis that has worked so well and moving to a payment-by-results model, which we have already seen through JobPath has not worked. More than 320,000 people have been referred to JobPath, 6.8% of whom have sourced employment that has lasted for a year, at a cost of €250 million to taxpayers....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if referrals to JobPath ceased at the end of 2021 as planned; if the scheme will be reviewed; if the numbers who gained employment as a result of the scheme will be collated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5331/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Did referrals to JobPath cease at the end of 2021, as planned? Will the Minister advise if she plans to review the scheme from when it was first piloted in 2015 right through to its end? Will she put together those results and publish a review on the success or not of the scheme?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...and Rural Development and the Islands and from the Committee of Public Accounts, of which Government Deputies make up the majority. They concluded, the Committee of Public Accounts in particular, that JobPath has not delivered value for money for the taxpayer, and, with a 7% success rate, I do not think it has delivered for the jobseeker either. If Government Deputies, councillors, the...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...a lower number of participants. I accept that Covid has been an issue, which goes without saying. However, I raised this matter last week and it was stated in respect of the lack of referrals that we had lower unemployment pre Covid. JobPath was established in 2015 and from then until when I was elected, as the party's adviser, I looked at the figures for referrals in regard to JobPath,...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...services and job clubs are not against procurement. We know that. We see it in the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, and the tendering process there. The Minister referred to JobPath. Two or three years ago, a motion was passed in the previous Dáil to end JobPath. It was not just Sinn Féin talking about it. After almost six years, the programme has...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...and LESs in their current format; — support from both the Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland and the Mayor of Cork, Colm Kelleher for Job Clubs and LESs; — the failure of the current payment by results service, JobPath, provided by Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited; and — that of the 376,964 people referred to JobPath between July 2015 and July 2021 just over...

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)

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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Claire Kerrane: .... They should be ringing over the fact that we have over 2,000 vacancies. It is important that we acknowledge referrals to CE were reducing long before Covid. They were reducing all the time. JobPath was ramping up and CE was not getting a look in. I appreciate the scheme has been extended for current participants but, after Covid, we should consider the position of the over-55s....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Claire Kerrane: .... To me, that is very serious. I am concerned about the end of walk-ins. All present should be concerned about that. As regards the payment-by-results model, I ask the Minister to consider JobPath, with more than €93 million of taxpayers' money paid to Turas Nua and Seetec in referral fees just for getting a person to sign on. They received individual payments of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referral fees paid to Seetec and Turas Nua since JobPath commenced. [34940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been referred to JobPath since it was introduced; and the number of persons currently engaged with the service. [34941/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (29 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have completed JobPath and found employment as a result in which the employment has been sustained for over one year. [34942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (24 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if referrals to JobPath will cease in December 2021 as planned. [34096/21]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Proposed Regional Employment Service: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...those furthest away from the job and labour market will not have the access to services they have had up until now. What are the differences between the model being proposed in this tender and JobPath? I ask the Minister to please look at the results from JobPath. Nearly €300 million was spent and over 280,000 people were referred, some of them two, three or four times. That...