{"id":394,"date":"2012-04-29T21:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/water-metering-more-twists-and-turns-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T21:21:59","slug":"water-metering-more-twists-and-turns-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/water-metering-more-twists-and-turns-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Water metering \u2013 more twists and turns \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Water metering \u2013 more twists and turns \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> has called on Government Ministers to explain why people wishing to avail of training that would allow them to install water metres are being charged \u20ac1000 by private contractors when in the past this type of training would have been carried out by FAS. He also said that the Minister needed to publicise the fact that completing this course will not necessary guarantee a job. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> raised the matter with Education Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn and Junior Employment Minister Ciaran Cannon during a meeting of the Jobs, Social Protection and Education Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said: \u201cThe ongoing fiasco surrounding the Government\u2019s attempts to introduce water charges has taken another twist with the news that a private company is to charge up to \u20ac1000 for training that would qualify people to install water meters. This makes a mockery of the Government\u2019s positive spin which claimed one of the benefits of introducing water charges would be the creation of thousands of new jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe Minister needs to clarify why anyone wishing to avail of the training will have to pay such a hefty fee. He also needs to publically state that if a person completes this training then then they will still not be guaranteed employment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cSome people already have paid for this training yet there are thousands of unemployed plumbers and tradesmen with job experience and the skills that are needed to install meters. It is unlikely that many people who pay \u20ac1000 for upskilling will get a job upon competing their training.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water metering \u2013 more twists and turns \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on Government Ministers to explain why people wishing to avail of training that would allow them to install water metres are being charged \u20ac1000 by private contractors when in the past this type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}