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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (29 Apr 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 — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I note from the details supplied that this case was heard before a rights commissioner who issued his decision on 9 May 2008. The claimant appealed this decision to the Labour Court. On 23 October 2008, the Labour Court issued its decision upholding the decision of the rights commissioner. Both the Labour Relations Commission and the Labour Court are independent statutory bodes which act...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: Since 2004, Irish labour market policy has been to ensure that general labour and skills needs are met from within the workforce of the European Union. For strategic skills and labour shortages it is Government policy to issue employment permits for the employment of non-EEA nationals for specific vacancies and in response to employer demand. The various schemes that give effect to such...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: An employee who is constructively dismissed is not entitled to statutory redundancy under the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967-2003. In a redundancy situation, the job or position must, in fact, actually cease to exist, for example, due to the closure, liquidation or rationalisation of the employer's business. However, in a dismissal situation, the job position does not automatically cease to...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 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 — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can advise the Deputy that under existing employment rights legislation in Ireland there is no compulsory retirement age specified and hence, amendment of existing legislation does not arise. Under the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2008, which aim to protect against discrimination in relation to access to employment on a number of grounds including age, it is permitted to include a...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that my Department has processed this lump sum redundancy claim on behalf of the individual concerned and that payment in this case issued on 30 April 2010.

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: What about the cost of staying in office?

Seanad: Ministerial Pensions: Motion (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: What does the Senator want next - a circus?

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank all Members for their contributions to the debate over the course of the past day. I will bring them back to the contribution of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, in which he put the context of the unprecedented budgetary and economic difficulties we are facing. We are giving leadership in facing these difficulties and this leadership is beginning to bring stability to...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I hope so. Let us reflect on the real context of the debate. There has been much talk by the Opposition about the 2009 debate. If the motion is right today then it was right in 2009 when many Opposition Members contributed to and voted on the debate but continued to accept their pensions until last week. Let us be very clear about the real motivation behind this debate; it is more to do...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: That is a matter for people in Donegal to decide.

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: The rainbow Government lowered the threshold for qualifying for pensions.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (6 May 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (6 May 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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 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...