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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: Discussions might find joint solutions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the proposals put forward in the Social Welfare Commission Bill 2018 in order to ensure the adequacy of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15742/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: Last October, I introduced the Social Welfare Commission Bill 2018. The intention behind it is to enure adequacy in social welfare payments across the board. Has the Minister had an opportunity to look at the Bill and will she make a statement on it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for her reply. It was the top priority at last year's pre-budget forum meeting in July that there would be adequacy in the setting of social welfare payments right across the board. There have been reports in the last while that the Minister is looking at linking payments to the consumer price index, CPI, only. If that is true, it would be a retrograde step and would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for that. In the context of the Bill I introduced last October, I carried out an extensive engagement with all of the groups involved, including Social Justice Ireland, the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the European Anti-Poverty Network. I consulted across the board and I note that there is a broad consensus in support...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: Is it a strategy to launch it a few days before the European elections?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date for the publication of the report into the impact of reduced jobseeker's payments for persons aged 18 to 25 years of age which was due to be published two years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15640/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath since 2015; the number of those that have commenced employment which has been sustained for 12 months or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15637/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to set up a taskforce which would consider the appropriate level of pensionable age and make recommendations in view of the way in which pension age increases were agreed without consultation or debate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15641/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Dialogue (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: 324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her engagements with stakeholders as committed to in the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 in relation to adequacy of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15759/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: The Minister will not be surprised that I have a few observations and questions. I eagerly awaited the opening statement which arrived late this afternoon. I read it with some interest. I thank her for coming before the committee, presenting her opening statement and addressing questions. There is an awful lot of concern out there. She has engaged positively with the ILDN but there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: They cited specific programmes that were allowed to proceed without the requirement for open competitive procurement. I quote the presentation made by Mr. Donal Coffey to this committee on behalf of SIPTU: A clearer reading of EU guidelines on competition policy and rules pertaining to state aid outlines how member states can work within the EU procurement environment while still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: I have a number of queries. I will follow up on some points made by Senator Alice-Mary Higgins on procurement. She is correct regarding SICAP tendering. It was approved by the Attorney General and I am told it was restricted to non-profit companies. The Minister stated there are lessons she may take from the process. I would like to know what she thinks those lessons are. The process did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: There is competition and we have evidence on that from people within the LES as well as people in other services such as adult guidance. People who had been engaging with those schemes and were then referred to JobPath ultimately ended up back at their starting point a year later. They were taken out of training and education schemes that were working and put sitting in front of a computer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: -----further away from the workforce now because they have been sitting in front of a computer screen for three years. Those people will probably find themselves linked in again with the LES. The Minister did not answer my question on the future of JobPath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: The Minister stated the programme would be examined in 2021. The contract itself is up this year with a two-year run-off period. The Minister stated that she wants to see the 48,000 people engaged on the programme complete it and she will not make any decisions on the future of JobPath until 2021.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: That is it for now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: I apologise but I have just one more question before the Minister responds. Returning to the issue of procurement, if the Minister does push ahead with open tendering will the €20 million condition that was part of JobPath be part of this tendering process? I have serious concerns if that is what is intended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: No. I was referring to potential public procurement of LES and other schemes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (4 Apr 2019)

John Brady: On the procurement process, the Minister did not answer a couple of my questions on the €20 million condition that was used for JobPath. I appreciate she may not have started consideration of the tender but there are serious concerns about the matter. I also questioned the Minister using the payment-by-result model. On the EU guidelines, I acknowledge the Minister's point that she...