Results 21,621-21,640 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I suggest he discuss with his local office the possibility of transferring to a Tús or community employment scheme. We now have 7,000 people on Tús schemes. To qualify for a placement on a scheme, one must have been unemployed for one year. I have had the pleasure of meeting a range of people on Tús schemes and the local development networks have been very helpful in getting...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: There is a minimum number of review targets for 2013. More savings are expected because we have better analytical tools. I gave an example of the man with the three photos. That is really helpful. If the inspectors talk to that individual, we get much more information because they ask why they are being picked on when other people are doing it. There is often a substantially increased...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: There are obviously people with a disability who are in work but who do not make any claim on the Department of Social Welfare because they have an income from their employment and so do not require support from social welfare. I do not have those particular figures. That would be a matter for CSO, but I will ask the staff to obtain those figures for the Deputy. There is a proportion of...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I can tell the Deputy what we are spending and will get the number of participants for him. This year we expect to spend €10.85 million. That is an increase of approximately €284,000 on last year. The overall expenditure on the supported employment service has gone up again from €8.104 million to what we anticipate spending this year, a further €8.8 million,...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I said I hope ultimately that will be the case.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: It is their total social welfare payment and the additional payment.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: When a person moves to Jobstart, he or she would continue to receive benefit payments for a period and therefore the total payment would be the standard payment plus an additional €20. As we increase the numbers, the additional cost represents the extra cost plus the extra administration cost and so on. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is providing...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: No. That will be taken out when the Estimates are being prepared. It could be the case that some of the people concerned have gone back to work. For instance, it was the pattern that many JobBridge interns were offered jobs after three months in the internship. They then leave the live register completely. In some cases, once people are given a start, a percentage of them will find some...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: Assuming all places are taken up.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: Those involved in the JobsPlus scheme do not retain their social welfare payments.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: The scheme will be formally launched next Monday in Waterford. The key points are that if an employer takes on a person who has been unemployed for more than one year, he or she receives a cash payment of €7,500 over a two year period on a monthly basis; in the case of a person on the live register who has been unemployed for two years or more, the employer will receive a cash payment...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: With the Arts Council and the county arts officers, the Department launched a scheme to offer high quality internships working with arts officers to provide expertise for festivals, for example. Cork County Council has been fantastic in taking advantage of the scheme. The same applies to Clare County Council which always takes advantage of any opportunity offered and is prepared to give...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I assure the Deputy that politicians who canvassed recently in County Meath will know that this is a very big issue. During the boom many involved in the construction and other industries who traditionally worked as employees found themselves working as contractors and subcontractors. In many cases, they did not want to be self-employed contractors, but this was necessary in order to take...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I have been able to facilitate the sub-committee in the case of previous reports. In fact, I have made it a priority to do so. In the case of the actuarial review, for example, there was actually some criticism from the media because the sub-committee had received it first.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: Yes, it had not leaked. It went to the sub-committee first. The Mangan committee indicated that 85% of formerly self-employed persons who had submitted claims did obtain access to social welfare supports. The outcome of such claims depends in large part on the production of information by claimants, something which has also become apparent in the case, for instance, of the farm assist...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I cannot wait for it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: There is an excellent distributor road running along the edge of the Chairman's constituency which takes one onto the Naas Road.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I assure the Deputy that I raise this issue at Cabinet almost every week and the message is getting through. In the case of small-scale construction contracts involving schools, for instance, many other Deputies and I are concerned that several were won by companies outside the jurisdiction. As part of our broader control and anti-fraud efforts, a joint project is under way between the...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: No. We have spent an additional €7 million or thereabouts on rent allowance this year as a result of the review.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: It is referred to as HAP, or one might say "happy".