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Other Questions: Work Placement Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am seeking more details on the Gateway scheme which seems at a glance to be more akin to the Workfare scheme, because there is no training budget and no prospect of work by the host organisation. Can the Minister elaborate on the scheme?

Other Questions: Work Placement Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Basically, the Minister has said that this is Tús for local authorities.

Other Questions: Work Placement Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is the same. Why not extend the CE programme to cover these opportunities whereby a specific programme with a training budget could use a method that works and has been proven to work, rather than creating a new scheme which is akin to Workfare? Is the Minister aware that an academic analysis by the Department of Work and Pensions in Britain, to which she referred earlier, questioned the...

Other Questions: Work Placement Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister can dream up all the titles she wants, such as Tús and Gateway, but at the end of the day they are the equivalent of Workfare, which has been condemned. Whether the Minister likes it or not, there is an element of compulsion.

Other Questions: Work Placement Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: People are brought in and told that if they do not take this offer, their payments will be reduced. They cannot volunteer for it, which means that it is compulsory, so the Minister is living in a fantasy world. Will the Minister ensure that such schemes - be they Tús or Gateway, which I am asking about - have an additional training budget? That would mean that whatever experience...

Other Questions: Work Placement Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have done so.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the delays in making disability allowance payments to 1,700 persons who made successful appeals to the social welfare appeals office; and if she will recruit more staff in order that decisions of the appeals office can be implemented immediately in the future. [50874/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What steps will the Minister take to address the increase in the delay between social welfare appeals being successful and appellants subsequently receiving payment from the Department? This delay is now over three months in the case of disabled applicants.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the news that the vast majority of the 1,200 disability allowance appeals awaiting clearance will be dealt with prior to Christmas. We all acknowledge the progress that has been made in respect of social welfare appeals, particularly in the context of the reduction in waiting times. However, this has made no difference to those on disability allowance whose appeals have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In view of her answer, I presume the Minister is confident that the new computer system will allow for future changes. In other words, once an appeal is successful, payment will be made within days or, at most, a week or thereabouts. I accept that it may take longer to calculate arrears. Will the Minister provide a commitment in this regard?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister cannot answer it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister cannot answer it. She should do so.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If she listened to the question, she might understand.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If she listened to the question, she might understand and then be able to answer it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Minister provide it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have asked the Deputy as she is the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister said there is confidentiality.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale underpinning her decision to prevent the disclosure of the names of companies which have used the JobBridge scheme in view of the significant benefits these companies derive from the work done by interns paid for by her Department; and if in the interests of deterring abuse of the scheme she will make a statement withdrawing the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am trying to get the Minister to indicate why she is refusing to disclose to the public the list of companies availing of the JobBridge internship scheme, which is a State sponsored scheme. Will she end the expectation that these companies have confidentiality, which is an expectation that she and her Department have created?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In a letter she wrote to the Ceann Comhairle to justify her refusal to answer a similar question in the past, the Minister stated that host organisations participate in the scheme on a voluntary basis and receive no payment or other benefit from the State in respect of that participation: no benefit. What does she call 39 hours of work each week undertaken by the JobBridge participants at...