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Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 to 168, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Local Employment Service: Local Employment Service (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170, 171 and 186 to 199, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2008 is being established. I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future. In responding to Question No. 111 of 8 December 2009 relating to the Local Employment Service Network,...

Written Answers — Local Employment Service: Local Employment Service (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 to 185, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2005 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am looking into the feasibility of providing this information in the form requested by the Deputy and will reply to him substantively on this matter shortly.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2008 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: A lay off situation arises where an employee's employment ceases by reason of his/her employer being unable to provide the work for which the employee was employed and where it is reasonable in the circumstances for that employer to believe that the cessation of employment will not be permanent. The employer must however give notice to that effect to the employee prior to the cessation. If...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: Under the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 - 2007, the objective is to ensure that statutory redundancy payments, due to eligible employees on being made redundant, are made in accordance with the legislative provisions. The legislation places the onus, in the first instance, on the employer to discharge the obligation to pay redundancy entitlement to employees. On so doing, the employer is...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The following tables contain details of the number of persons engaged in Community Employment and Job Initiative on a county basis for the years 2008 and 2009. Community Employment Places (Inc. Supervisors) County At Year End 2008 At Year End 2009 Carlow 325 322 Cavan 224 225 Clare 573 574 Cork 2,125 2,140 Donegal 1,145 1,120 Dublin 6,001 6,428 Galway 1,447 1,451 Kerry 973 959...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I wish to refer the Deputy to the reply given to Parliamentary Question 47245/09 of 16 December 2009 and to supplementary figures relating to FÁS and Skillnets training emailed to him on 18 December 2009. In addition, 5,042 persons availed of FÁS evening courses and 912 persons availed of FÁS on-line training courses in 2008. Unfortunately, statistics for evening courses and on-line...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: As stated in the reply to the Deputy on 16th December 2009 the Social Welfare linked allowances paid to participants on Community Employment (CE) and Jobs Initiative (JI) programmes and FÁS training courses were reduced in Budget 2009 in line with the Budget reductions to Social Welfare recipients. The FÁS additional allowance for participants on CE and JI have been reduced from €24.40...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: In 2009, the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) conducted a total of 208 inspections in county Kildare. Of this total, 7 inspections related to restaurants. In 2008, NERA conducted a total of 301 inspections in county Kildare. Of this total, 31 inspections related to restaurants. The inspections undertaken on restaurants were carried out under the Catering Employment Regulation...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (26 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 – 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 (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: In December 2009 the Tánaiste announced that an additional 500 places would be provided on the Community Employment (CE) Scheme bringing the total number of participants to 23,300. The current eligibility criteria set by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for entry onto the Community Employment programme allows for the combination of periods on different social welfare...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: 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 €24.40 to €20 per week. The cuts in CE were necessary to fund increased activation measures in 2010 including an additional 500 CE places to bring the...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (27 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides funding to a number of State Agencies, including the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) and Enterprise Ireland, through whom assistance is delivered to businesses. Subject to certain eligibility criteria, new and developing micro-enterprises may qualify for financial support from the CEBs in the form of priming, expansion/development and feasibility/innovation...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can advise the Deputy that, as I indicated in my reply to Question No. 77 of 1 December 2009, my Department issued a cheque to the individual in question at the address supplied on the RP 50 form submitted to my Department. It appears that the cheque was intercepted and cashed by someone other than the payee. I understand that the Garda was asked by the claimant to investigate the matter...

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The industrial dispute involving workers from the company in question resulted from workers' concerns over the company's cost cutting proposals, involving redundancies and the introduction of new contracts of employment for the remaining workforce. The issues were referred to the Labour Court under section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969. The union undertook to be bound by the...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can confirm to the Deputy that the correspondence received by my Department from the company in question on 7 January 2010 has been responded to and the issues raised therein have been addressed.

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I understand that no claims have yet been received to date in 2010 under the Insolvency Payments Scheme or the Redundancy Payments Scheme on behalf of the workers in Sigma Telecom or Sigma Wireless. There are some paid claims on this Department's files dating from some years ago as well as in 2009 in the case of Sigma Telecom. There is also one single outstanding claim from Sigma Wireless...