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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (15 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: The mission of the Department of Rural and Community Development is to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. The Department is in ongoing contact with local and community groups through the local structures such as Public Participation Network (PPN). The focus of the PPN is to empower and assist groups to participate in local decision making. This...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Reviews (15 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: Through extensive contact with local authorities, local development companies and community development organisations across the country, my Department seeks to be constantly aware of issues of disadvantage and delivers many programmes and schemes that target disadvantage is a targeted way. For example, my Department has responsibility for the Social Inclusion and Community Activation...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (15 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, a whole of Government approach has been adopted in addressing the impacts of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Detailed work has taken place across Departments and in State agencies in relation to monitoring and responding to both issues. Within my own Department, the Covid-19 Stability Scheme provided support to the Community and Voluntary sector during the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Isolation (15 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: Addressing the issue of individual isolation in communities has become more important than ever before. Many of my Department's policies and funding programmes aim to address social isolation issues in communities, and also deliver benefits by responding to the challenges facing vulnerable individuals. My Department continues to provide funding to tackle social isolation and support those in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (19 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 to 265, inclusive, together. 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 temporary, fixed term basis. The Community Employment (CE) programme is delivered through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: 707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider proposals from teaching unions to establish a national voluntary redeployment panel for teachers under which those teachers who wish to relocate would keep their permanent status, including the development of an online portal to facilitate direct swaps for voluntary teacher redeployment; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Firstly, I wish to acknowledge the valuable and dedicated service that CE supervisors/assistant supervisors provide in running CE schemes in delivering local based community services while providing a valuable training and development opportunity to the long-term unemployed and to those often furthest removed from the labour market. The Department, as the funder of CE schemes, received...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their local communities on a temporary fixed term basis.  We are all very conscious of the important role that CE plays and we all wish to support them as best we can.  In addition...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their local communities on a temporary fixed term basis.  The programme aims to improve a person’s opportunities to return to employment. We are all very conscious of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their local communities.  The programme aims to improve a person’s opportunities to return to the labour market.  CE placements are intended to be temporary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Department of Social Protection commits in its Customer Charter to investigate and promptly deal with complaints impartially and in confidence.  There is also a commitment to acknowledge any complaint within 3 days of receipt and to issue a response to the complaint within 14 days. On receipt of the parliamentary question a check was made to locate the complaint referred to in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Department of Social Protection operates a number of employment support schemes, including Community Employment (CE) and the Rural Social Scheme (RSS), for long term unemployed persons which also assist communities across the country in the provision of vital services.  Budget 2023 was designed to assist recipients of Social Protection payments with Cost-of-Living increases...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regulatory Bodies (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Charities Regulator is fully independent in the performance of its statutory functions under Section 14 (3) of the Charities Act 2009. Neither I nor my Department have any role in the decision-making process of the Regulator, particularly with regard to the registration of charities and whether they are operating in accordance with regulations. That is entirely a matter for the Regulator...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Business Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Not-for-profit and voluntary organisations in the Community and Voluntary sector are woven into the fabric of community life across Ireland, but they are vulnerable to the impact of increased energy costs. The budget announced on 27th September 2022 allocated €10m to my department to put in place a support scheme for community and voluntary organisations and charities to help with...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Business Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Not-for-profit and voluntary organisations in the Community and Voluntary sector are woven into the fabric of community life across Ireland, but they are vulnerable to the impact of increased energy costs. The budget announced on 27th September 2022 allocated €10m to my department to put in place a support scheme for community and voluntary organisations and charities to help with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pay (24 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Firstly, I wish to acknowledge the valuable and dedicated service that CE supervisors/assistant supervisors provide in running CE schemes in delivering local based community services while providing a valuable training and development opportunity to the long-term unemployed and to those often furthest removed from the labour market. CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are employees...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their local communities. The programme aims to improve participants' opportunities to return to work in the open labour market. Budget 2023 was designed to assist recipients of Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (24 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their local communities. The programme aims to improve participants' opportunities to return to work in the open labour market. As the economy and society emerged from COVID, it was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (24 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities within their local communities on a temporary fixed term basis. The programme aims to improve a person’s opportunities to return to employment. I am very conscious of the important role that CE schemes play in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (24 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment Scheme (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 temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsor organisations that receive state funding from the department to...