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Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: FÁS Job Clubs were introduced in 1999 to assist people who were actively seeking employment by providing support for the job search process and an environment in which it could be carried out. Independent Sponsor Groups are contracted by FÁS on a year to year basis to run the programme. Job Clubs are seen as an important resource and intervention for those who have recently completed...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 to 129, inclusive, together. The detailed information requested by the Deputy will take some time to collate and will be provided at a later date.

Written Answers — Job Initiative: Job Initiative (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Job Initiative (JI) is a programme providing full-time employment for people who, at the time of application, were 35 years of age or over, unemployed for 5 years or more and in receipt of Unemployment Benefit, Unemployment Assistance or One Parent Family Payment over that period. Following changes introduced Job Initiative by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: The rights commissioners and the Labour Court act independently in carrying out their functions. Section 13(9) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969 provides that a party to a dispute in relation to which a rights commissioners has made a recommendation may appeal to the Labour Court against the recommendation and the parties to the dispute shall be bound by the Court's decision. In 2008, a...

Written Answers — Employment Appeals: Employment Appeals (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Employment Appeals Tribunal is an independent, quasi-judicial body under the aegis of my Department. Secretarial and administrative support is provided by Departmental staff. Additional administrative resources have been allocated to the Tribunal, both last year and this year, to help it process claims. For claims outside of Dublin, I understand that, over the past three years, the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy payments 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. I...

Written Answers — Departmental Guidelines: Departmental Guidelines (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: My Department does not licence petrol dispensing stations and accordingly I do not have detailed information about the extent to which they are operational but my understanding is that there are none in operation in the State at present. It is my further understanding that such stations could only operate by virtue of special conditions attached to a licence granted to a proposed operator. In...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: There is no funding involved under the Work Placement Programme as the participants retain their Social Welfare payments while on the programme. To date, 60 individuals have applied for vacancies advertised under Work Placement Programme in Waterford City and County. These individuals have been screened for eligibility by FÁS. Out of the 60 applicants, 3 have already taken up positions with...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (8 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: Community Employment (CE) 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 fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 to 99, inclusive, together. I understand that FÁS is currently collating the information requested by the Deputy. I will contact the Deputy once this has been completed.

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (9 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: The objective of the Employment Subsidy Scheme (Temporary) is to provide an employment subsidy to vulnerable but viable enterprises in order to maintain as many jobs as possible within these enterprises. The Employment Subsidy Scheme is being operated in accordance with the EU Temporary Aid Framework, and under paragraph 4.2.2 (d) of the Temporary Community Framework on State Aid, aid to...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: I understand that FÁS, in conjunction with local RAPID Groups, is organising basic training and work experience opportunities for 18 to 25 year old unemployed people from RAPID areas around the country. FÁS is investing €2 million nationally in the RAPID programme of which approximately a third is concentrated on schemes within the Dublin area. Most of the initiatives have started and...

Written Answers — Wage Levels: Wage Levels (9 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of employees in the private sector who received wage increases in 2008 and 2009 is not collected by my Department. Such increases would be a matter for negotiation between individual employers and employees. Aggregate data in relation to earnings in different sectors of the economy are collected by the Central Statistics...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: I will give Deputy Gogarty a dig-out if he wishes.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (10 Dec 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. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (10 Dec 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. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (10 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: I wish to advise the Deputy that according to the records in the Redundancy Payments Section of my Department, no redundancy claim exists in respect of the individual in question. I am advised that the individual lodged a claim with the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) on 24 September 2009 to seek a determination establishing the employee's right and entitlement to redundancy against his...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Dara Calleary: To be fair, the Minister is entitled to a break of a few minutes.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Dec 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. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Dec 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. I...