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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...

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.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will takes steps to limit the period within which her Department can demand the repayment of overpayments in cases excluding fraud to bring it into line with the period people can claim tax relief for expenditures operated by the Revenue Commissioners, which is generally four years; and if she will provide a breakdown of the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a new advance filtering system to prevent potentially odious positions from gaining access to JobBridge; and if she will review and report on the effectiveness of existing provisions in this regard. [3525/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will take the legislative or other necessary steps to ensure people who are parenting alone and continue to satisfy the means test requirement for one-parent family payment will not be transferred from that payment to the back to education allowance with the resultant loss of the maintenance portion of their student grant for the duration...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the crisis in rent supplement, including an update on claim processing times; and the total number of rent supplement recipients that will be transferred to the new housing assistance programme by the end of 2014. [3523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Reform (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate her Department's pension forecast service which was available to PRSI contributors in the past in view of the great uncertainty and anxiety that has arisen from impending changes to the State pension and the unreliability of the private pension system to provide adequate retirement income more generally. [3522/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if Intreo offices may make referrals to local employment services. [3828/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the number of NEAP referrals by her Department to local employment services will be affected by the establishment of JobPath; the ongoing and future role of LESs in terms of categories and numbers of persons referred to them. [3829/14]