Results 21,481-21,500 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Job Creation (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department's facilitators work with social welfare recipients of working age to promote economic participation and enhance social inclusion. Recipients include people in receipt of jobseekers payments, people parenting alone, people in receipt of disability payments and people providing care. Facilitators work with these social welfare recipients to identify appropriate training or...
- Job Creation (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No, I dealt with that earlier.
- Job Creation (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy knows that the employment services part of FÃS is being moved to the Department, so all the resources involved in placing people through FÃS will also now be part of a seamless service to be provided between facilitators and FÃS staff. They will not do exactly the same work but all the personnel will work together coherently. We could say that this is the Croke Park agreement...
- Job Creation (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The purpose of bringing the employment service of FÃS to the Department is to provide a comprehensive service to unemployed people so they can be made aware of all the opportunities out there on a one-stop shop basis. I welcome the Deputy's support for this approach, which is fundamental to the changes made by the Taoiseach when he set up the Department of Social Protection. We have moved...
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The social welfare system supports people of working age by providing income and other supports and by facilitating them in taking up employment, training, education or development opportunities. A key concern in this regard is to ensure that social welfare payments provide adequate income replacement and maintenance for the customer and their family, while also providing that sufficient...
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As Deputy Ring knows, it is illegal to work while drawing social welfare benefits. Clearly I would not condone the practice. The replacement rates compared to the national minimum wage are 64% for a single person, 70% for a couple with one earner, 73% for a couple with one earner and one child and 76% for a couple with one earner and two children. When compared to the average industrial...
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Individuals on low incomes are entitled to the back-to-school allowance.
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No, they do not. The family income supplement will suffice in such a case.
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Anybody in employment who is earning a low income should be on the family income supplement.
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously, people on low incomes are short of money. The Deputy is making a contradiction in terms by asking me what I am doing. The family income supplement exists to help people on low incomes and we should encourage them to take it up. It would be preferable for the individuals concerned and for the State to pay family income supplement because it would make it more sustainable to those...
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: May I make a final point?
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is an important point.
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am only trying to be helpful.
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I would not like to give the impression that the majority of unemployed people are unwilling to take up employment. I have repeatedly seen throughout a long career of creating employment that the majority of unemployed people will always take up reasonable employment. Only a small minority would not do so.
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. Currently more than 96,400 tenants benefit from rent supplement payments, an increase of 62% since the end of 2007....
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, I agree the scheme needs reform in a number of areas. First, it was never intended to be a long-term scheme and, therefore, there are anomalies in that people are on it in the long term. As the Deputy knows, one of the problems with the scheme is that the â¬24 is paid irrespective of the make-up of the household. One will find people who are much better off on rent supplement than...
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I assure the Deputy I am tackling this whole issue. I have had a number of meetings in regard to the rent supplement scheme. I have met all of the relevant bodies and I will consider the suggestions the Deputy has made. I have been considering suggestions such as that and I am working on a number of other issues in regard to the rent supplement scheme, one of which will be dealt with in...
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The most fundamental change we need is to go back to where the scheme started. This was meant to be a scheme of short duration. It was never intended to be-----
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The most fundamental thing we must do is to get back to that situation. I am working with the Minister of State with responsibility for housing to get back to a situation where this scheme is of limited duration and does not become a semi-permanent arrangement. It was never designed-----
- Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is a major part of the solution.