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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the delegates. I have followed the campaign for equality budgeting closely and listened carefully to previous presentations that were made to Oireachtas Members. A delegation from the committee will travel to Scotland in the coming weeks to get the view of the authorities there on how equality budgeting has worked for them. Although the situation in that jurisdiction is somewhat...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 90. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a líonfaidh sé an folúntas do Phríomh-Oifigeach sa Bhrainse Logaimneacha le duine ag a mbeidh na cáilíochtaí cuí mar thaighdeoir, ionas gur féidir leis an gCoiste Logaimneacha tuairiscí cruinn a fháil uaidh nó uaithi chun oibriú dá réir. [4376/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on citizenship will be made on an application in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [4537/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a family of two adults and three children (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has been living in a hostel for seven years awaiting a decision on its citizenship application. [4538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to moving a family (details supplied) in Dublin 22 from a one-room hostel accommodation to Watergate Apartments where its will have more space and will be able to cook its own meals. [4539/14]

Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a very interesting debate and if we had got it off the ground some months ago we might be further down the track of the banking inquiry. I understand the reasons behind it. The Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions was established to have these debates and schedule them over the period of its existence. The referendum saw off that aspect of that committee, which...

Other Questions: Civil Registration Legislation (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I, too, welcome the Minister's commitment in regard to this issue. I wish also to draw to her attention to the fact that reference to this matter being addressed under the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill is omitted from the "purpose of Bill" section of the legislative programme. I welcome the Minister's clarification in that regard and that the Bill will see the light of day shortly.

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.

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: 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: 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: 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...