Results 581-600 of 14,554 for speaker:Dara Calleary
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (17 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 â 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 — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 169 together. The Community Employment Scheme participant payments are comprised of their Social Welfare entitlement and a weekly allowance. The Jobseeker's Allowance was reduced by 4.1% in the December budget while the CE allowance was reduced by from â¬24.40 to â¬20 per week. The cuts in CE were necessary to fund increased activation measures in...
- Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: The Government continues to monitor wage movements in the labour market, and related developments in Employment Regulation Orders, Registered Employment Agreements and Social Welfare rates, so as to ensure that the National Minimum Wage, at its current rate, is not having an adverse effect on vulnerable workers and enterprises in a time of rising unemployment and declining nominal wages. The...
- Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 172 together. I can advise the Deputy that the position as outlined in the reply given on 17 September last remains largely unchanged. As outlined at that time, following the successful appeal to the Supreme Court in this case, judgment was issued on 30th April 2009. The final step in the legal process is the granting of a final perfected Order by...
- Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: The matter referred to in the Deputy's question is a call from the Restaurant Association of Ireland for the abolition of the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system and the reduction in the minimum wage in the Catering sector to â¬8.65 per hour. The Government is committed to upholding the arrangements for the making of the Employment Regulation Orders under the Joint Labour Committee (JLC)...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 184 and 191 together. As part of Budget 2010 a number of savings were identified in relation to Community Employment (CE). These changes were mainly in the area of training allowances that are linked to Social Welfare payments and certain FÃS Allowances that are provided in addition to the core training allowances. The FÃS training allowance for...
- Written Answers — Semi-State Bodies: Semi-State Bodies (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: The term referred to by the Deputy relates to a sundry costs account maintained in FÃS. The account, which is operated on a vouched basis, is used for the reimbursement of costs to FÃS personnel for the purchase, by staff members in the first instance, of sundry items on behalf of the Agency.
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: To date my Department has made two applications, and is in the process of finalising a third application, for assistance under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). These applications are in relation to major redundancies at the DELL plant in Raheen, Co. Limerick, the Waterford Crystal plant in Kilbarry, Co. Waterford and the S R Technics facility at Dublin Airport. Strict...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Jan 2010)
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 — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Jan 2010)
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. The purpose of CE is to help unemployed people to re-enter the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a...
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: The current Irish law in the area of "transfer of undertakings" is the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 â Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 131 of 2003. The Regulations implement the mandatory (i.e. mandatory to transpose) provisions of EU Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 which is aimed at safeguarding the rights of...
- Written Answers — Semi-State Bodies: Semi-State Bodies (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I understand that FÃS is currently collating the information requested by the Deputy. I will write to the Deputy again once this has been completed.
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 204 and 206 together. 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 â rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (19 Jan 2010)
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 â 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 (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department received an application under the Insolvency Payments Scheme on 27 November 2009 for Arrears of Wages, Holiday Pay and Minimum Notice on behalf of the person concerned and some former employees of this company. The impact on business of the severe economic circumstances currently pertaining has resulted in a significant rise in the level of...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (19 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: Budget 2010 provided an increase of 14.6% in the weekly child dependent allowance for qualifying participants on FÃS training and employment schemes.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: For any bank.
- Job Creation. (20 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputies O'Donnell and Deenihan for raising this issue and acknowledge the regular contact we have received from Deputy O'Donnell on the issue of the globalisation fund over the past number of months. As the House is aware, the mid-west task force completed an interim report which was presented to the Minister by the chairman, Mr. Denis Brosnan, last July. A number of national and...
- Substance Abuse. (20 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and I welcome the opportunity provided by Deputy Clune to make a statement to the House on the issue of head shops. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and regulations made thereunder regulate and control the import, export, production, supply and possession of a range of named...
- Tourism Promotion. (20 Jan 2010)
Dara Calleary: I thank the Deputies for raising the issue. As both of them stated, the matter of applying to the organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race to host a stopover of the event is primarily the responsibility of the host port, which is comparable, for example, to the manner in which a golf venue bids with the PGA European Tour to host the Irish Open. The promoters who initiated the process that led to...