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- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: It is about progression.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: What everyone wants is to provide opportunities for people to work and become financially independent. That is my ambition.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: My Department is undertaking a review of the effectiveness of a range of employment support, activation and work schemes, including the community employment scheme. This was committed to some time ago as part of the troika review process. The review will help to determine future policy-----
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy supported it. He voted for the bank guarantee.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The outcome of the review will inform the overall approach my Department will take to securing the best outcome for schemes and their participants, taking account of the large amount of money we spend on them. We spend the guts of â¬1 billion on employment schemes, some â¬315 million of which is spend on community employment schemes and the approximately 22,000 places provided. The 1,300...
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: At a time when the social protection budget must be reduced, we must adhere to the principle of making a single primary payment per person.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The time to make two payments is-----
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: Unfortunately, we cannot afford to make two payments.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: I am sorry-----
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: I would like there to be no reductions under any heading, but we must try to meet our budget in the way that best secures recovery for the country and employment for people.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: We must use community employment schemes, given the valuable contribution they make to local communities.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: We must give community employment scheme participants a positive experience that will help them to achieve their goals in life and to find a job. That is the absolute requirement.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: We also require a value for money element, given the times in which we live and the way the economy has crashed. I am confident that we will emerge from the review and that, by the time we discuss the matter this time next year, actual opportunities for community employment scheme participants and communities will have improved.
- Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: No, â¬51.
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: It is the responsibility of the employer to pay statutory redundancy to all eligible employees. An employer who pays statutory redundancy payments to employees is then entitled to a rebate from the State of a percentage of the relevant amount. In a situation where the employer is unable to pay the statutory redundancy to his/her employees the Department will make lump sum payments directly...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: Autism spectrum disorders are categorized by the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) as: autism F84-F84.9 and are recognised by the World Health Organisation. My Department recognises autism spectrum disorders as disabilities. The eligibility to disability allowance is determined by its severity and expected duration.
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: There are a number of elements of the pension system which are in need of reform and there is a significant amount of work under way at present. We want to make the State pension more transparent and equitable, as well as affordable and sustainable. The qualifying age for State pension has been increased to age 66 from 2014, 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028. The number of minimum paid...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 29 September 2011. The Department is currently processing redundancy lump sum claims received at the start of June 2011.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 130 and 131 together. At end of 2011 there were 2,928 and 2,977 recipients of rent supplement in counties Mayo and Donegal respectively. Rent supplement provides short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case on 9 February 2012. The person concerned has been notified of the arrangements for the hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and...