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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (3 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work 2016-2020. To date,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...and second, through Pathways to Work to ensure that as many of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register, and in particular the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment. For example, the most recent data show that the rate of long-term unemployment in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...and second, through Pathways to Work to ensure that as many of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register, and in particular the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment. For example, the most recent data from the Labour Force Survey shows that the rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (20 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment and youth unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (11 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: Based on EUROSTAT Labour Force Survey data, the number of Irish long-term unemployed was 80,000 in Q4 2016, as compared with 9,278,000 in the EU overall. The situation in Ireland has improved substantially both in absolute terms and relative to the EU average in the last few years. The number of long-term unemployed here peaked at 204,000 in Q1 2012 at a time when the EU number was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (17 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment and youth unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work 2016-2020. To date, these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...and second, through Pathways to Work to ensure that as many of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register, and in particular the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment. For example, the most recent data shows that the rate of long-term unemployment in Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (30 May 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...since the economic low point. Secondly, through the Pathways to Work strategy, my Department ensures that as many new jobs as possible are filled by people taken from the live register, particularly the long-term unemployed. Activation Policy continues to focus on support measures for the long-term unemployed.  My Department's Intreo service offers a range of education, training and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (11 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register, including young people. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing youth unemployment and long-term youth unemployment in particular. The number of young Irish people who are unemployed for over a year has fallen from a peak of 35,600 in Q4 2011 to 9,300 in Q1 2017. The overall...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (19 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities. In addition, it helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. One of the Government’s primary strategies is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (4 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...low point of 2012.  Secondly, through the  Pathways To Work strategy, my Department ensures that as many new jobs as possible are filled by people taken from the live register, particularly the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment.  For example, most recent data from the Labour Force Survey shows that...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Data (7 Mar 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...in the State. The latest unemployment data available for Ireland are for Q4 2016. The latest corresponding EU 28 data available are for Q3 2016. The following table shows the total number of very long term unemployed persons (over two years duration) together with the total number of persons who are unemployed in Q3 and Q4 2016 for Ireland. The table also includes the percentage share...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (12 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 507 and 508 together. I was pleased to announce on Budget Day that an 85% Christmas bonus was to be paid this year to over 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients, such as pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents and long-term jobseekers at a cost of €219 million. The Christmas bonus was introduced in 1980 for certain...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I was pleased to announce on Budget Day that a 100% Christmas Bonus will be paid to some 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients, including pensioners, people with disabilities, carers and the long-term unemployed, in recognition of their long-term financial dependence on their social welfare payments for all or most of their income. This is an increase from the 85% Bonus paid in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service. For the purposes of the JobPath service all long-term unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register, aged...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I was pleased to announce on Budget Day that an 85% Christmas bonus will be paid this year to over 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients, such as pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents and long-term jobseekers at a cost of €219 million. The Christmas bonus is payable to persons who are in receipt of long term social welfare payments. Illness Benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 269 to 271, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Seetec Ltd and Turas Nua Ltd. For the purposes of the...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...apply for the two two-week periods. However, somebody who is vulnerable obviously does not stop being vulnerable after the two weeks, so then such people are entitled to apply for the Covid PUP as long as they make a declaration that their income has fallen away. They can be maintained as employees, but as long as the company is no longer paying them they can apply for the Covid payment...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: It will probably take nine months. That sounds like a very long time, but given that one is only now receiving reports that were asked for at this time last year, it probably is not that long a time.