Results 261-280 of 2,335 for speaker:Joe O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (20 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Services Programme, or CSP, supports community organisations to provide local services through a social enterprise model. That said, following an independent review of the CSP, which was undertaken by Indecon International Economic Consultants, the Department and Pobal have commenced work on the restructuring of the programme. Pending the transition to the new restructured...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Government is aware of the challenges facing community and voluntary organisations and is committed to working closely with the sector in managing through these, recognising that it will require a whole of Government approach. The Community and Voluntary Sector Covid-19 Stability Fund was intended to be a targeted once-off cash injection for organisations and groups currently...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Government is aware of the challenges facing community and voluntary organisations and is committed to working closely with the sector in managing through these, recognising that it will require a whole of Government approach. The Community and Voluntary Sector Covid-19 Stability Fund was intended to be a targeted once-off cash injection for organisations and groups currently delivering...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Government is aware of the challenges facing community and voluntary organisations and is committed to working closely with the sector in managing through these, recognising that it will require a whole of Government approach. The Community and Voluntary Sector Covid-19 Stability Fund was intended to be a targeted once-off cash injection for organisations and groups currently...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (21 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: CE is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and others with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities that receive state funding from the Department to cover the cost of CE employee remuneration. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (21 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, Community Employment (CE) supervisors and assistant supervisors have been seeking for several years, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors who are employed by CE schemes.   CE sponsoring authorities are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if travel agents will be eligible to apply to the recently announced CRSS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32182/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if businesses in the events, exhibition and conference industries will be eligible to apply for the recently announced CRSS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32183/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (22 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Sudan which is a consequence of recent flooding; if the State has plans to render humanitarian relief via Irish Aid to the effected flood victims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32181/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (22 Oct 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of efforts to secure a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32241/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 226. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his attention has been drawn to instances of non-essential outlets in shopping centres opening and trading under level 5 which will result in staff being unable to access the Covid-19 payment if the shop does not close; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32955/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 402. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to take measures to ensure that insurance companies offer reasonably priced insurance policies to persons whose homes have been deemed at risk of flooding or coastal erosion (details supplied). [32465/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 404. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will be re-engaging with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to a possible further mortgage moratorium for customers. [32479/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 528. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if specific gyms or training centres have been nominated to facilitate ongoing training for professional and elite sport under the current level 5 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32622/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) Scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with work experience and training opportunities in CE projects which benefit their local communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. In general CE placements for new entrants aged between 21 and 55 years are for one year....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) programme is a community centred labour market initiative established for the purposes of social inclusion and activation, to help long-term unemployed people and other vulnerable groups to enter the workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment. Although the Deputy has not mentioned the Interdepartmental Group (IDG) report specifically, I will respond...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Social Inclusion Forum (SIF) was established by the Government in 2002, as part of the National Anti-Poverty Strategy institutional structures, and has continued to be part of the monitoring and evaluation structure of successive strategies, including the recently published Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025: Ambition, Goals, Commitments. The aim of the Forum is to give people who...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) Scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. In general, the period of participation on CE is for one year. However, CE participants who are working towards a major...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if greyhound racing will be permitted to continue to take place at level 5 of the national framework for living with Covid-19; the rationale for this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32779/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pigmeat Sector (3 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a record of premature deaths in the pig industry is not kept by his Department; the number of inspections that are typically made to each pig farm per annum; if these are unannounced visits; and the reason there are no figures available for the age of pigs which are exported live. [33681/20]