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Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Irish Penal Reform Trust released a report recently on conditions in Cork Prison. I am aware that the Government is to address the issue of Cork Prison and that contracts for a new prison or to refurbish Cork Prison have been signed. The trust's report highlights the fact that 58% of committals were for non-payment of fines. Recently we saw the inappropriate jailing of Margaretta...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope the Tánaiste will call for her release. One of the issues that has arisen concerns a Bill that has been included in the legislative programme since Fine Gael and the Labour Party came to government, namely, the inspection of places of detention Bill. This Bill will give legislative effect to international conventions, put the Council of Europe inspection regime on a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna (23 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a bheidh plean foirfe ann maidir le scoil nua do Ghaelcholáiste Reachrann i nDomhnach Míde, Baile Átha Cliath, agus an dtuigeann sé an phráinn a bhaineann leis an gcás seo toisc go bhfuil daltaí agus múinteoirí ag fanacht ar fhoirgneamh buan le 13 bliana anuas agus go bhfuil 380 dalta...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised)
(23 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We will have to change the description on the legislative programme as it does not mention the European directives in its description of the forthcoming Bill.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised)
(23 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister. I do not have major questions on pensions, just a comment. Obviously, a substantial amount of the money in this budget goes on contributory pensions. Of the €6.5 billion or so, it is €5.5 billion. It is a return to people who have paid into the social insurance fund. They are getting back what they paid or invested over their working lives. That will...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised)
(23 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have follow-on questions. I will stick to the exceptional needs payments, in particular the fact that changes in what was categorised as an exceptional need led to a substantial reduction in what was paid out. The Estimate for last year was more than €45 million but €35 million was spent. If the community welfare officers are now being located in Intreo offices, is it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Work Placement Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the planned JobPath programme, including the expected start-up and annual costs; the approximate portion of these costs that will go to profits for private companies; and if the existing local employment services will see any reduction in their funding from her Department in parallel with the implementation of the JobPath...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Work Placement Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am trying to ascertain whether the Minister is aware of concerns that her tendering for the outsourcing of the new job placement scheme, JobPath, will undermine existing underfunded community-based and not-for-profit local employment services.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Work Placement Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like many people, I am ideologically opposed to the outsourcing and privatisation of social protection services. Evidence from overseas suggests that this has been an expensive failure in other states. For those who are furthest from the labour market and for existing not-for-profit activation infrastructure, it has been a disaster. I am requesting, for a number of reasons, that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Work Placement Programmes (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As is usual in her replies to questions, the Minister has misrepresented what I said. It is obvious that she also misunderstands the concept of the tender which is payment by results. None of the community-based organisations has the funding required to enable them to spend months or years helping people who are very difficult to place. They are required to wait for payment from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the conclusion of the Union of Students of Ireland in its document, Vision for Post-Bailout Ireland, that the JobBridge scheme is beyond repair and should be phased out; and the steps she will take in response to same. [3955/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is the Minister aware of the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, document, Vision for Post-Bailout Ireland, and what it has to say on the JobBridge scheme, that the scheme is beyond repair and should be phased out? The USI is the latest of several unions to have come to that conclusion, to have rejected the scheme and to have said it needs to be ended.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have been asking questions about the JobBridge scheme since it was initiated and I have yet to hear the Minister admit it has an exploitative aspect. Through its sponsorship of this scheme the State has contributed millions of free hours of labour, exploiting the 25,000 people the Minister mentioned, to companies which often gain an economic advantage over their competitors. The Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is quite a lot to argue with in terms of the Minister's policy for young, unemployed people. I can stand over our position, which is pro-jobs, and our documents on jobs attest to that. I have supported Intreo and JobsPlus but I do not support the exploitation of workers, nor have I have supported the cut in training grants to young people on community employment, CE, in which the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is undermining each and every one of those terms and conditions that were won over the past 100 years. This is one of the schemes where the very same is happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no politics involved. I have a full list here if the Minister wants it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister should look at the research properly and stop quoting it in the wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was not disparaging of Tús, just of the way the Minister operates Tús. I said nothing about the people involved in it or the people using it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not want to shout. The Minister is misrepresenting what I said.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not shouting. I will not come in here and be misrepresented every time.

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