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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: Yes. It reflects the success of that particular programme. The training programme was estimated at €17.5 million and it came in at €11.4 million, which is an underspend of €6 million. Approximately 40% of the savings under this subhead relate to the Department's contingency fund. This fund is reserved for unforeseen circumstances. We did not have any unforeseen...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: Nothing that cost us money. The primary savings related to bank charges, which was €2.8 million. I am not sure why bank charges are under the training subhead. I am informed it is the training and incidental figure. The Department also incurred savings in other areas including training in customer communications and advertising, PeoplePoint charges and the higher of rooms...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: I do not have that figure with me, but I will come back to the Deputy with it. It will take me a couple of days or weeks to get the figure because it is not something we would have. I will give it to the Deputy as soon as I get it. The Department will need to correspond with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. I will get back to the Deputy. Again, nobody is pushing...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: I do not have that figure. I will have it in a minute.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: It went up €22 million.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: It went up to €71.698 million.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: It was €48.8 million.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: It is both. Not only are more people staying in work longer, but they have the capacity to take more people as well. The schemes with both of these organisations are entirely demand led so they only get paid when there are successful outcomes. They do not get paid just for showing up to work, they have to take people, work with them and then they get approximately €300 for working...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: Good man. That is what they get for working with somebody but then the bonus payments obviously kick in when somebody gets a full-time job for 13 weeks, 26 weeks and 52 weeks. That increase is purely down to the success of the project so maybe we should have been more ambitious when we made our Estimates last year that they would be more successful. Also, that is reflected in the fact that...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: This year, 15,000 people have been sent a second time. There were significantly more referred in the first instance than the first number the Deputy mentioned.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: The end of next year.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: No.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: There are two issues. The econometric analysis is being finalised and I hope to have it in January but the preliminary findings are looking good and that is the report, alongside the position on our projected targets, that will determine what we will need going forward. I do not know right now what the needs of those 127,000 people who are full-time unemployed, as announced this morning by...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: They will of course. I apologise because I have so many reports at the moment and I like to finish one before I start another one. I have finished reading the report and I have a meeting with the team on the local employment support networks, LESNs, and jobs clubs this week. I need to fill them in on my good news from the report on what we should do and they will temper me and tell me to...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: As soon as that meeting has happened, we will issue the report and it would be valuable to have the committee's input into the recommendations before we make final decisions.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: Get me a copy of the letter.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: The local authority's job is to provide long-term, stable housing for people, and HAP is far more stable on a five or ten-year contract than rent supplement where people are normally only on an annual contract. They are obviously writing out to them offering to put them on a long-term footing, but there is no implicit threat that if they do not, it will affect their rent supplement. If the...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Regina Doherty: The local authority has absolutely no truck with anybody in our Department. They do not have a magic button that they can press.