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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 47 and 48 together. There are main two streams of participation on Community Employment (CE). These streams and the limitations on participation have been a feature of CE procedures from as far back as the 1990s. The first stream is called the Part-Time Job option and is for persons who are over 35 years of age and have spent 3 continuous years on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The aim of Community Employment (CE) is to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities on a temporary basis. The Department’s priority in supporting CE is having access to schemes that can provide job seekers and other vulnerable groups with good quality work...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Community Employment (CE) has an upper age limit for funding of a participant. This is set at the State Pension age (66 years of age at present). No funding will be made available under CE for those participants who qualify for the State Pension. This has been the case on CE since the programme commenced in April 1994. There are also limits on the maximum duration of participation. For a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I can confirm to the Deputy that there are no savings to the Department by the non-renewal of Community Employment (CE) Scheme places for those of 60 years of age or older, or indeed any age, as the CE places are back-filled by other eligible customers. This turnover of places allows the programme to maximise access to the opportunities provided by Community Employment (valuable work...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The key objective of activation policy and labour market initiatives is to offer assistance to those in need of support in securing work and achieving financial self-sufficiency. This policy objective prioritises scarce resources to those in receipt of qualifying welfare payments. Accordingly the employment services and schemes provided by the Department are focused, in the first instance,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is responsible for the publication of Live Register Data. The definition of what is included in that data is a matter for the CSO. The Live Register is not a measure of unemployment. The CSO's Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) data provides unemployment statistics and since last month the CSO has introduced a new series of monthly...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I will make a brief contribution.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, for the work that she has done throughout this Bill. I am delighted to be back in the Seanad today as we move towards the enactment of what is a ground-breaking and quite a complex piece of human rights legislation. It has been the target at every Stage to try to get this legislation through both Houses by the...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I will reply to group 1 because it has been so wide-ranging. I thank Senator Zappone for her remarks in the beginning and for her work and for the Private Members' Bill that she published. She is quite right. The debate in this House did influence and change legislation as it travelled through. I am truly grateful for the work of everybody in the House.Senator Marie Moloney may take my...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: These are technical amendments regarding a reference in the Bill to the registrar of inter-country adoptions and the foreign birth register.It is section 90 and not section 91. Amendment No. 3 is necessary in order that the reference in the same sub-paragraph (iv) reads "section 91(1)(b) of that Act". Amendments Nos. 14, 19 and 20 relate to the foreign births register. They amend the...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Amendments 7 to 13, inclusive, were passed on Committee Stage in the Dáil and amend section 12 of the Bill, "Application to court for exemption", by 16 and 17 year olds. The amendments provide for the inclusion of the supporting statement from the applicant's primary treating medical practitioner, either an endocrinologist or a psychiatrist, to confirm that the child has transitioned or...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: To Cabinet. Yes.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: That is what I said.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: There was an exchange of correspondence in regard to it but no amendments were brought to Cabinet, and amendments would need to have been brought to amend the Bill on this Stage. There was correspondence from the Tánaiste to the Minister. The engagement with the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, was very good. It engaged positively with the Department in regard to...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: No.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Group 4 relates to updating of the Passports Act 2008 to reflect the introduction of gender recognition legislation based on a model of self-declaration. We do not have the time to go through it in detail. This is to reflect the current legislation when this was passed. The amendment will be made to the Passports Act 2008.

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I support the Government amendment. I thank everyone for their contributions. I was present for the entire discussion. The Senators who have remained in the Chamber are probably familiar with my record in this House. I come in, I listen and I try to work on the basis of any viable and good ideas I hear. It is very rarely that I take offence in either House, but I have to say I took grave...

Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: She is very knowledgeable.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: If Deputy Robert Troy cannot get his figures right, it is not surprising that Fianna Fáil broke the country.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The Deputy was factually incorrect with his questions.