Why waste the money rebranding FAS? Its just silly and an awful waste of money needlessly.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck. You can call it what you like but it will be the same waste of resources.

ANCO part deux!

wasn’t it already rebranded as “Solas” last year or is that separate?

So we had FAS which was one Quango, now we have FAS, Solas and Intreo? I thought this Government was meant to be getting rid of Quango?

Ryan no it’s a Irish way , find a way to spent as much money as you can with no results , that’s why ppl are negative ,,,, oh yes get a few TDs family and friends jobs and over pay all the staff

Did fas not spend 1 billion a year for the boom year , that’s enough to put a smile on anyone face ,,, you know what you can do with your positivity !!!!

Nice little PR contract for one of the boys anyhow !! Any figures on how much rebranding will cost ??

‘Born out of FÁS’s recruitment arm, the initiative aims to provide individualised services to the unemployed in order to increase their employability and get them back to work.’

There are many , many extremely employable people currently on the live register. The problem for most isn’t whether they are employable or not, but the fact that a climate has been created , in which job creation is practically impossible for SME’s

My meeting with Fas , resulted in me being told ‘you’re job ready, keep your eye on the website’

you can’t polish a turd…its not the title of the quango that matters. It’s the imbeciles who run it that make it a devastating mess of large salaries, “fact finding” trips to America and hair appointments for women.

Fas still alive, Is paddy an employee of Fas? Jobs for the Boys still alive and kicking, It should be made a semistate or privatised and operated on performance!

Would be much better to give cash loans to SME on interest free loan ,they are the ones who will make job creation

Another PR cosmetic solution to a systemic structural problem.
Change the label, keep the product.
Its way past time to shorten the working week and share both work and the profits skimmed by financial shareholder extractors who make no input other than accumulated capital from earlier capital strokes.
The growth model serves only the obese elites who will never have enough, leaving a growing majority with less than enough.
There is enough for all, but not when the gluttons are in charge of the manipulated market distribution.
More ‘productivity’ only feeds the unproductive speculator, not the producing worker. This is another ‘look-busy’ job.

Went into FÁS (it’ll always be that to me just like Marathon/Opal Fruits/Jif/Oil of Ulay) to seek funding for a Night-Time Course in IT-Carlow starting in January (20 Weeks, 1-Night a Week, Certificate in Health & Safety) costing €450. Refused. The courses they are providing here in Carlow aren’t of any interest to me or a lot of people from asking around. Wanted to do some Night-Time Courses in Carlow Institute of Further Education also but similarly got refused becuase the Institution wanted the shekels up front (understandably) but FÁS wouldn’t pony up the shekels until the end! They said this was because they had to be happy with how the course was delivered, the modules involved etc. I offered to pay myself & claim the money back off FÁS but they said no to this option. It’s like hitting yourself off a brick-wall in there! As for a Jobs Officer? Even though they don’t close til 5pm (Lunch 1-2pm), they basically refuse to see anyone after 3:30pm cos they have to do paperwork. The place can be empty and no one in front of the person seeking an appt. Mind boggling. Civil Service mentality. So be down at 9am or 2pm if in Carlow folks; don’t know if this is similar countrywide?

it’s all a big game. change the name of the service. hand out several large contracts to academic institutions like SPRINGBOARDS OR JONBRIDGE does To colleges in dire need of funding and Upskill the jobseeker for his 18 k a year minion job on a conveyer belt. once Again we see it’s more important to look busy rather than actually be busy.

same staff? good luck!!!

A rebranding of FÁS? You can’t polish a turd, but you can throw some glitter at it.

My son could get a job if he had a certain banks man ticket it costs about 700 euro fas won’t sponsor him so he remains unemployed

All the above should attend a course on overcoming negativity and creating a positive outlook on Community and Life.
We would all benefit from their attendance.!

Typo in title? ‘Intreo’? Presumably you meant ‘Intro’ which you refer to in the article.