Results 21-37 of 37 for jobpath speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her proposal to privatise social welfare services via JobPath. [39796/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will return to the JobPath scheme in respect of which I have a number of questions. One of the key planks of the Pathways to Work strategy has been the roll-out of the Intreo offices, which I welcome. It is a good initiative. I have attended one, if not two, of the openings. It is a logical approach and one that should be taken in dole offices for many years but regrettably it was not....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Initiative (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process; the number and names of companies that submitted a bid; and if any of the companies that bid have had involvement in the delivery of the work programme in Britain. [30868/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (9 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 259. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of bids received in the JobPath tender process; the names of the bidding companies and if he will provide an update on the process. [30244/14]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...area where public services are being outsourced. It was a Progressive Democrats mantra that the public service should have been outsourced or privatised and the Minister has started that ball rolling with JobPath. I hope the Minister will be proven right in her comments about An Post being protected forever but I do not believe that. Unless it is in legislation and the company retains...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...a danger in the approach to the delivery of social welfare services as a whole. That is the reason I have argued against the putting out to tender of the delivery of unemployment services through JobPath. This again undermines a public service when one starts to commercialise it by putting JobPath out to tender. The result of that tender will potentially undermine the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process; her views on whether the privatisation of social protection services proposed gives rise to a danger of supports focusing on those amongst the long-term unemployed that are easiest to place at the expense of those with more intensive support needs also known as parking and creaming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...is correct, because we are dealing with a lot of privatisation or contracting out of public services. There are plans for further contracting out. I do not know whether the Ombudsman is aware of JobPath, a scheme run by the Department of Social Protection. A tender process has been completed, but we do not know the result. The services which those who are unemployed will be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (16 Apr 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the objections to JobPath, which proposes to outsource employment support services to private operators, submitted by the public sector unions to the Haddington Road mechanism; and if she will halt the JobPath procurement process. [17649/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process. [10345/14]

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...that they will be obliged to become subcontractors to those profit-focused multinational companies or face extinction? The Minister has claimed, and has just reiterated, that her intention is for JobPath to complement existing services. However, she failed to outline clearly her intentions regarding the future role of those services once JobPath is established and begins to deal with 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: 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]

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding from her Department to local employment services will not be reduced upon the establishment of jobPath. [3830/14]

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: ...in the system are subsequently referred to local employment services and so forth. What is the shortfall in staff and what needs to be done to make up this shortfall? This information will determine the JobPath for which the Department is tendering, namely, the new scheme under which the Department will roll out a service through a private concern or joint venture. If the current number...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (17 Dec 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the introduction of JobPath including the status of the tendering process, terms of reference and timeframe for conclusion of the tender, costings and roll-out of the project. [53937/13]