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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Joe O'Brien: Tús is a labour market activation measure delivered as short-term, community-based work placements for jobseekers on the live register that have been unemployed for more than one year.  The objective of Tús is help the participant return to the labour market through the provision of supervised work placements within the community, building work experience and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 274 and 278 together. Tús is a targeted activation measure specifically designed and delivered to jobseekers who are on the live register and have been unemployed for twelve months or more. Tús is delivered locally by a network of 48 local development companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta, known as implementing bodies (IBs). Eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Deputy has clarified that the question relates to the impact of the six-year rule on the Community Employment (CE) and Rural Social Schemes (RSS). CE is an active labour market programme providing eligible long-term unemployed and other disadvantaged people with an opportunity to engage with training and work experience in their communities on a fixed term basis. The programme aims to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Rural Social Scheme (RSS) provides supplementary income support for low income farmers and fishermen and women, who are underemployed in their primary occupation and have an entitlement to   Farm Assist and other specified means-tested social welfare payments.   As of the end of September 2021 there are 3,006 participants availing of RSS. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Joe O'Brien: Tús is one of a range of employment support and activation measures provided by my Department to assist jobseekers who have been unemployed for 12 months or more to return to the labour market. Tús provide participants with opportunities for supervised work placements within the community, building work experience and individual participant confidence.  The duration of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (5 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a review of the scheme of reasonable accommodations at certificate examinations and consider broadening the current set of allowable reasonable accommodations with a view to making examinations a more accessible and equal experience for children with a disability. [47633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: On clarification with the Deputy's office, the question refers to whether people that are employed as crew members on a fishing vessel, but who do not themselves hold the fishing licence for that vessel, can access the rural social scheme (RSS). RSS is an income support initiative providing part-time employment opportunities for farmers or fishermen and fisherwomen in receipt of certain...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Cultural Institutions (6 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the planned transition of the National Symphony Orchestra to the National Concert Hall; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48551/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 and 26 together. As the Deputy is aware, the CE scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in meaningful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed-term basis to improve their prospect of returning to employment. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for her question. Currently, there are 1,400 service support stream participants on CE schemes. There are 500 places available for people over the age of 62 on the schemes. Up to 10% of CE placements are available under the service support stream. That limit is set on a divisional basis so there is also flexibility between schemes in a particular area. This is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: We very much value the community employment schemes, not only for what they provide for the individual involved but very much for the community services also. In recognition of this, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and I will be involved in an operational forum with sponsors and other stakeholders from throughout the country. We will hear issues such as those outlined by the Deputy. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: This will allow community employment schemes a little bit more time to fill the places. The good news is that in recent weeks, referrals are ramping up. We should be looking at a better situation on the ground for CE schemes over the coming months.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Rural Social Scheme (RSS) is an income support scheme providing part-time employment opportunities for farmers and fishermen or women who are in receipt of specified social welfare payments, and who are underemployed in their primary occupation. The scheme offers participants the opportunity to gain valuable work experience in their communities. Following a Government decision in 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: My Department provides a range of employment support schemes including Community Employment (CE) and Tús. These supports are specifically targeted at those people who have been unemployed for 12 months or more. The aim of CE and Tús is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing valuable work experience opportunities. CE also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 75 together. The Department of Social Protection delivers a range of active labour market employment support schemes including Community Employment (CE), and Tús to provide opportunities for long term unemployed persons gain valuable work experience by working within their local communities. Building on the July Jobs Stimulus and as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020 - 2025 is a whole of Government strategy that aims to reduce the number of people in consistent poverty in Ireland to 2% or less. The Roadmap contains seven high level goals with 22 specific targets, which will be delivered by 66 unique commitments. Implementation of Roadmap commitments is underway with a number of commitments fully achieved or close...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 63, 84 and 88 together. As the Deputy will be aware, CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors have been seeking for several years, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who are employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: On clarification with the Deputy's office, the question refers to whether people that are employed as crew members on a fishing vessel, but who do not themselves hold the fishing licence for that vessel, can access the rural social scheme (RSS). RSS is an income support initiative providing part-time employment opportunities for farmers or fishermen and fisherwomen in receipt of certain...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Rural Social Scheme (RSS) is an income support scheme for low income farmers and fishermen and women, who are underemployed in their primary occupation. To be eligible to participate on RSS, a person must be aged 25 or over, in receipt of Farm/Fish Assist or another qualifying means-tested social welfare payment, and meet the criteria for either a self-employed farmer or a fisherman. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy is aware, Community Employment (CE) Scheme 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 temporary, fixed term basis to improve their prospect of returning to employment. Most recent changes to CE were emergency measures...