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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Eligibility (6 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, was introduced in July 2011 with the aim of providing unemployed people with the opportunity to secure work experience and to prove their competence to prospective employers, thereby breaking the vicious cycle of “no work, no experience; no experience, no work”. The programme has strict eligibility criteria in place to protect the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (6 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: As of 1 April 2016, a total of 42,619 people had completed internships, of which 15,211 progressed immediately into employment on conclusion of the internship. 9,525 entered into employment with the host organisation and 5,686 with a different company. This represents a progression rate, upon conclusion, of 36%. An independent evaluation conducted by Indecon Economic Consultants (Report...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Registration of Marriages (6 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: Where one or more of the parties to a proposed marriage have previously been granted a foreign divorce they must satisfy the registrar that the divorce is recognised in Ireland. The recognition of a foreign divorce in Ireland is governed by the Domicile and Recognition of Foreign Divorce Act 1986. The case referred to by the Deputy is currently being dealt with by the General Register...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. JobPath is one of the range of activation supports, including schemes such as Community Employment, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Participants on JobPath receive intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7, 46 and 65 together. Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme supporting approximately 57,600 people for which the Government has provided approximately €267 million for 2016 (with provisional outturn of over €311 million in 2015). There were over 20,100 rent supplement tenancies awarded during...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The Minister of Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for issues relating to pension claims and reconvened the Community Sector High Level Forum in November 2015 to scope out the issue with the CE supervisor union representatives (SIPTU and Impact). These discussions are ongoing.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: JobPath is a new approach to employment activation that will support people who are long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. JobPath is one of the range of activation supports, including schemes such as CE and TÚS, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. In general, given the need to manage the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Severe Weather Events Expenditure (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department for severe weather emergencies and the Office of Public Works has responsibility for capital flood relief activities. However, the Department of Social Protection has an important role to play in assisting households in the immediate aftermath of emergency events such as flooding. In early December 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 27 and 66 together. The strategic policy direction of the Department is to return rent supplement to its original purpose of being a short-term income support scheme. Under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), responsibility for the provision of rental assistance to those with a long-term housing need transfers to the local authorities. Rent supplement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: Responsibility for the Community Employment (CE) programme transferred to the Department of Social Protection in January 2012. Since then, significant improvements have been made to the operation and governance of CE. These improvements have taken place in the context of a changing profile of participants on CE in a challenging economic environment. The following is a summary of the main...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: Following the transfer of the Community Welfare Service (CWS) from the Health Service Executive to the Department in 2011, the Department has re-engineered its business model to support the provision of integrated services across all business streams involved in the delivery of localised services. As part of this strategy, the Department is engaged in the delivery of integrated Intreo...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Funding (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection provides a range of supports to community organisation through schemes such as community employment, Tús, the rural social scheme and the community services programme. These supports are structured in the form of direct and indirect provision of funding for staff to enable the delivery of services. The Department does not operate any scheme that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The community services programme (CSP) provides valuable resourcing for service delivery undertaken by not-for-profit companies and co-operatives in communities around the country. Funding of €46m has been provided for the programme in 2016 which will maintain the current level of activity. Given the restrictions on resources, the Department has been unable to make an open call for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The Department provides funding to Community Employment (CE) scheme sponsors with which it has a contract under four sub-headings - participant allowances, supervision, training/development, and materials. All consumable services and materials necessary for the effective operation of the project will normally be considered for approval, including such items as employers and public...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: As the Deputy is aware, the JobsPlus incentive provides for a direct monthly payment to employers who recruit employees from the Live Register and those transitioning into employment. It provides two levels of payment - €7,500 or €10,000 over two years - paid in monthly instalments provided the employment is maintained. The rate of payment depends on the length of time the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 44 and 46 together. Following the transfer of the Community Welfare Service (CWS) from the Health Service Executive to the Department in 2011, the Department has re-engineered its business model and staffing resources to support the provision of integrated services across all business streams involved in the delivery of localised services. This included...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) provides income support for jobseekers and others in receipt of certain social welfare payments that pursue courses of education at second or third level. The objective of the scheme is to raise the educational and skill levels to enable jobseekers better access to the emerging needs of the labour market in line with Government activation strategy. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 55 and 84 together. Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme supporting approximately 57,600 people for which the Government has provided approximately €267 million for 2016. There were over 20,100 rent supplement tenancies awarded during 2015 and over 3,000 during the first three months of 2016 showing...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78 and 79 together. JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, was introduced in July 2011 in response to the unprecedented collapse in the economy – particularly the sharp increase in unemployment. The aim of the scheme was to help unemployed people to break the cycle whereby they could not get a job without experience, but could not get experience...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Adaptation Grant (20 Apr 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The means tested housing adaptation grant for people with a disability and local authority home improvement loans, for persons who cannot get a loan from a bank or building society, are provided by local authorities and come within the remit of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. This Department’s Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) scheme is not intended...