27 Ean 2015, 17:34
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions will tomorrow hear concerns around the tendering for the new social inclusion and community activation programmes.
27 January 2015
Deirdre McCarthy and Siân Muldowney of the Dublin Inner City Community Co-operative Society will address the Committee on a petition they submitted last year. The organisation was formerly known as the Dublin Inner City Community Alliance.
The petition argues that that is it not good public policy to put social inclusion programmes out to public tender as these are services are for the public benefit and not for private profit, and that tendering processes disempower local community led organisations and structures
Chairman of the Committee Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD says: “The Dublin Inner City Community Co-operative Society petition outlines the perceived flaws in the current policy of tendering for new social inclusion and community activation programmes. The representatives are expected to argue that the process threatens to undermine community development projects and will result in a deterioration of services for the most disadvantaged. They also claim that a growing consensus is emerging at EU levels that social services should be kept out of public procurement processes. Committee Members look forward to carefully considering the petition at tomorrow’s meeting.”
The meeting takes place on Wednesday 28 January in Committee Room 3, LH 2000 at 4 pm. Public proceedings can be viewed online here.
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Committee Membership
Deputies:
Richard Boyd-Barrett, Independent
Noel Harrington, Fine Gael
Michael Healy-Rae, Independent
Seamus Kirk, Fianna Fáil
Michael P. Kitt, Fianna Fáil
Pádraig MacLochlainn (Chairman), Sinn Féin
Helen McEntee, Fine Gael
Michelle Mulherin, Fine Gael
Derek Nolan (Vice-Chair), Labour
Patrick O'Donovan, Fine Gael
Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Sinn Féin
Sean Kenny, Labour
John Halligan, Independent
Jack Wall, Labour
Senators:
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, Sinn Féin
Jimmy Harte, Labour
Tony Mulcahy, Fine Gael
Susan O’Keeffe, Labour
Ned O'Sullivan, Fianna Fáil