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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (5 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: 1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a hearing aid under the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44371/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (5 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: 1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied). [44551/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (5 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: 1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44671/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Is there more integration between retailer and supplier in terms of technology in the UK? I am thinking of e-commerce platforms. When I worked in a previous job a lot of major retailers were working on e-commerce platforms in order to amalgamate their buying power.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: No. Where a number of retailers want to buy, say, batteries, there would be a platform and they would mine the data to see how many batteries they could buy or sell over a period of three or four months. They can also use the data to go back to the supplier to say they will buy a given number of batteries but at a certain price, thus driving down the cost. Has this practice progressed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: I wish Mr. Gloster well in his post. I worked with him in a former post in CHO area 3, which is in the mid-west. I thank him for the service he gave there over a number of years. Mr. Gloster mentioned the local approach, which I very much welcome. He will know from our time working in mental health that I pushed for measures in that area, particularly around recruitment. I ask him to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: What percentage of those 677 staff will be temporary and what percentage of them will move to become permanent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: I get what Mr. Gloster is trying to do. This is not is not a criticism and I know he is trying to find a solution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Two steps are involved, to move to being temporary and from there to being permanent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Is there any way to jump from being an agency worker to being permanent? Let us say an agency worker has completed six, 12 or 18 months work with Tusla, which would be taken into account at interview or in the recruitment process, to move a person up the line because he or she has that experience, is there any way of jumping that ten-step process and converting directly to being permanent?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: I understand staff are being in-sourced. Hopefully, these people will convert to temporary status and then to permanent staff. What impact would have that have on filling open positions? I understand there are a number of open positions Tusla cannot fill, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: I am trying to break it down in my head. There are a number of open positions for social workers and agency staff are currently covering those positions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Are there a number of open positions agency workers are not filling? In other words, are there open positions that have been frozen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: What I am trying to ascertain, and it is not a criticism – I am trying to work it out in my own head – is that when those agency staff move to being temporary, they will be in-sourced and Tusla will still have the same status quoof staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Of the outstanding roles not covered by agency staff for which Tulsa cannot get people to fill, are there any proposals on how Tusla will square that circle or attack the filling of those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Would that be a temporary contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: For my own education, who is responsible for the recruitment licence? Is it the Public Appointments Service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: Yes, but the recruitment licence that was mentioned-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion with CEO of Tusla on Future Developments and Update on Childcare Facilities (6 Nov 2019)
Tom Neville: That is its responsibility.