The PS deputies elected by the Algarve are concerned about the "lack of training offer" of the Professional Training Center for Fisheries and the Sea (CFPPM) in Portimão.
In a question sent to the Ministries of Social Security and the Maritime, Luís Graça, António Eusébio and Jamila Madeira questioned whether the CFPPM intends, according to the Training Plan planned for 2017, to reopen training activities in the Portimão hub.
In question, For-Mar, a professional training program aimed at traditional economic activities of the sea, such as fishing and maritime-tourism, and which, remember the socialist deputies, has a strong expression and formative importance in the Algarve, with two centers of the Professional Training Center for Fisheries and the Sea in Olhão and Portimão.
«The For-Mar Training Center in Portimão covers an entire territory between Albufeira and Arrifana, in the municipality of Aljezur», underline the parliamentarians, who do not understand the lack of training offer at this center.
«Demonstrating its social relevance is the fact that the Portimão hub is one of the CFPPM hubs with the greatest training activity in the country, as well as the number of registration requests it already has at the moment, although it does not exist until date any decision to open courses in that training center», they state.
For the deputies, the situation is unjustifiable, since "many of the potential trainees are unemployed" and it is a sector that lacks manpower.
"We cannot understand the reasons why, despite the needs, training at the Portimão hub remains suspended," stresses socialist deputy Luís Graça, regretting that some interested parties have enrolled in the Olhão hub, despite the distances being greater than 90 kilometers and this implies a high cost.
In view of all this, the deputies want to know if «the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security and the Ministry of the Sea are aware of the demand for training, namely in the Barlavento Algarve, and the lack of response from the Professional Training Center for Fisheries e do Mar”, also questioning the Government about the opening date of the For-Mar inscriptions in the training center of Portimão.
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