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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Department of Social Protection pass on the money to the Department of Justice and Equality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I had another question about credits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It does not only concern the housing list. In order to get access to the RAS scheme in the past, one had to have been on the housing list or in receipt of rent allowance for a number of months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The HAP has a lower threshold. One cannot go from direct provision straight onto the RAS or HAP scheme. One can receive rent supplement once the assessment of need has been made. Senator Ó Clochartaigh was asking if there was some recognition of the length of time a person spent in direct provision, not for the purpose of the housing list because that would mean that many people would...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We had quite a long debate on this issue several years ago when we made substantial changes to how double insolvency was treated. At the time, we argued that solvent and highly profitable businesses, whether an individual business or a complex network, should not try to get out of their commitments to their workers, either current, former or deferred. There is a logic behind Deputy Willie...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They failed miserably.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support this proposal. I would have gone further and called for reports on the terms of the changes introduced to the lone parent allowance and for young people in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance. Again, these were meant to be emergency measures, but we have not seen either being rowed back on. The Government has announced there is a recovery and that we are in a different...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: While I can understand the motivation behind the proposal tabled by Deputy Pringle, it is a blunt instrument and is not the proper place to address the issue to which he refers. In addition, the amendment's wording contains a contradiction because child benefit is a social assistance payment in any event and consequently, this provision would contradict itself in that it provides that one...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Naughten's proposal is reasonable and is in line with the objectives of the social welfare code. Where anomalies arise, as in the example he gave, a degree of discretion should apply. I have come up with examples in respect of different schemes where a bit of flexibility would provide the relief or help that someone needs to get over a hump. One of the reasons we may have such a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing disability allowance by €20. [40861/15]

Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom ar dtús báire comhbhrón ó chroí a dhéanamh le pobal na Fraince, atá buailte chomh dona sin leis an uafás a tharla ar an Aoine nuair a tharraing buíon bunúsaithe marfacha an tragóid anuas orthu siúd, leis na clanna atá tar éis duine a chailliúnt ach go háirithe, agus leo siúd atá gonta...

Other Questions: Garda Vetting of Personnel (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As far as I know, Turas Nua employees are Garda vetted, whereas Seetec which obviously is a private company has its own private system. The customer charter for Turas Nua does not seem to be as accessible online as the Seetec one and that should be corrected. There could be highly sensitive data about people who are long-time unemployed for a multitude of reasons. There could be a big file...

Other Questions: Garda Vetting of Personnel (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if employees of companies (details supplied) who are tasked with the privatisation of the job placement role of her Department have been vetted by An Garda Síochána; and how she will ensure that these companies operate within the provisions of the Department's Customer Charter 2013-2015. [40100/15]

Other Questions: Garda Vetting of Personnel (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This arises from a question we dealt with earlier, namely, the State out-sourcing those who are long-term unemployed to Seetec and Turas Nua under the JobPath scheme and to ensure that all the protections that currently hold to the Department of Social Protection also hold in regard to these companies, in particular Garda vetting, data protection and any other restrictions in terms of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We discussed this recently at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection and there is a range of people not captured by social welfare payments, for example, people who work two hours a day and do not have any family do not qualify for jobseeker’s allowance and would have to give up their work to get the allowance and to qualify to access to the CE schemes. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am aware of some of those courses but they do not capture everyone. There are people who fall through the cracks. I have referred such people to the Intreo offices and some have come back frustrated because there was nothing available. Some have been shown a career path or educational path to help them engage in the workplace or at least enhance their curriculum vitae. The Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider widening the eligibility criteria for participation in Community Employment Schemes to facilitate adult dependents, those not in full employment, those on low hours or on low pay who do not qualify for Family Income Supplement, and those who are not in receipt of a Social Protection payment. [40186/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I ask this question to ascertain whether the Minister will live up to a commitment made in Pathways to Work 2014-2015, which stated that the Department would develop and evaluate options to extend employment services to people who are not on the live register and improve the promotion and communication of existing activation options, particularly for those who are unemployed or underemployed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It may deliver results in some cases but, as I argued, it is not anything that could be delivered through the public service or through the changes the Minister brought about in the Intreo offices. All of what the Minister described sounds good but the experience to date is that people referred to JobPath cannot access a community employment scheme and, even if it is to their liking or part...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister's opening gambit contradicts the logic behind the JobPath scheme. She has already shown that people will find work by themselves or with the help of Intreo offices and the job activation schemes already in place without introducing this scheme. However, a debate on JobPath is for another day. The Minister's statement confirms some of what I believe is happening. Some people...