Results 281-300 of 14,528 for speaker:Dara Calleary

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I assume that the Deputy is referring to a matter which has been referred to the Labour Court. The Labour Court is an independent statutory body which acts independently in the carrying out of its functions. The Deputy's question would relate to a matter concerning the day-to-day operation of the Court, and is one in which I have no function.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: An employer who pays redundancy to a qualified employee is entitled to seek a rebate from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in the order of 60% of the statutory amount. The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received statutory redundancy rebate applications from the employer concerned in respect of three of his former employees. In the case of one of the applications the rebate...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has completed the processing of the redundancy application for the individual concerned and that a statutory redundancy lump sum payment was authorised on the 28th of August 2009. Payment of the amount involved will follow shortly thereafter.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: There are 41, 854 claims currently on hand as of 4th September 2009. This figure includes claims at various stages of processing, including those which were incomplete and/or which require further information to allow processing to be completed.

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 190 together. At the end of quarter 1, the Quarterly National Household Survey youth unemployment rate stood at 19.3%; the Central Statistics Office will release quarter 2 figures at the end of September. The Government is aware of the difficulty of providing suitable opportunities for young people in the current downturn. A number of measures have...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The total number of training and work experience activation places funded by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment through FÁS in 2009 stands at over 130,000. This compares to the 66,000 equivalent places that were delivered in 2008. The breakdown of the 16,525 training and work experience activation places announced in the April 2009 Budget includes the following: An...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: Under the National Employment Action Plan Preventive Strategy, persons on the Live Register who reach certain unemployment duration thresholds and who are in receipt of the Jobseeker's Allowance/Benefit are systematically referred by the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) to FÁS and Local Employment Service personnel for assistance. As part of this process, just over 8,100...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The allocation of funding and places for the FÁS Mid West Region is fully committed for 2009 and, unfortunately, it is not possible to facilitate the organisation with additional participants. Funding for the FÁS Mid West Region in 2010 will only become clear when the 2010 Estimates process has been completed.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received a number of applications from the employer in question in relation to the individuals concerned. One of these claims has already been paid. The two remaining applications, which were received during March await processing. Fairness to all claimants claims are processed in order of date received. The Department is currently...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: Payment of statutory redundancy is, in the first instance, a matter for the employer. Currently the statutory entitlement for eligible employees amounts to two weeks pay per year of service plus a bonus week subject to a ceiling of €600 per week. The primary function my Department has in this area, is to ensure that all eligible employees receive their statutory entitlements -either from...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: In late 2003 the National Implementation Body (NIB), which comprises representatives from the Department of the Taoiseach, IBEC/CIF and ICTU, commissioned Mr. Phil Flynn and Mr. Tom Mallon to examine the reasons for the pattern of industrial relations difficulties in the bricklaying sector of the construction industry. The Report was delivered to the NIB in October 2006 and made available to...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including those with a disability) with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. ...

Written Answers — Job Initiative: Job Initiative (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Job Initiative Programme (JI) which was launched in July 1996 continues to provide full time employment for people who are 35 years of age or over, unemployed for five years or more, and in receipt of Social Welfare payments over that period. The main purpose of the programme is to assist long-term unemployed people to prepare for work opportunities by providing participants with work...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The FÁS Local Training Initiative (LTI) programme is a project-based training and work experience programme carried out in local communities and run by local community groups. The LTI provides alternative early training interventions for socially excluded clients and is designed to reach out to niche marginalised groups and provide individually based training tailored to meet locally...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: On-line training courses are available free of charge to all persons who are in receipt of unemployment benefit. FÁS may also allow free access to those persons who have evidence that they are unemployed but who are not in receipt of unemployment benefit. Such cases are decided on an individual case-by-case basis.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I wish to share time with Deputy Mary Alexandra White.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: We are coming to the end of the first phase of what has been an extraordinary 12 months not just in the life of the country, but also in the life of the world. Last Monday marked the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, bringing with it the oil that for whatever reason was powering most of the international banking system. That in addition to our own domestic issues has led...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I have no difficulty in taking him on. It is wrong to throw around figures like that and it is unfortunate. The Deputy brings expertise and experience that may not be here.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: However, let him live up to the declaration he made when he decided to run that he wanted to change the way politics operates, a criticism of every Deputy in this House, including Deputy Bernard Durkan. He said he wanted to engage in politics and offer solutions. We have a solution so let him input his expertise and experience on Committee Stage.