Results 741-760 of 2,335 for speaker:Joe O'Brien

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: It is important that we do not do it in bits and pieces but do it in a holistic way. The point about Tús has been made a number of times. There are no live plans to do that. We carefully monitor CE, Tús and RSS figures on a monthly basis to see if there are things we can do. Quite a few changes have been made over the past year and six months. The thinking is still that if you...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I will give responses but I will not have answers to all of the Deputy's question, as I think he recognises. I have a table of statistics relating to the rural social scheme in front of me. They relate to the numbers availing of the scheme and qualified adults. I am not going to try to analyse it on the spot. The piece of analysis the Deputy is asking for makes sense in the context of the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I would like to look into that case. We are crying out for people on the rural social scheme.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I will comment on the resources that have been made available to address the situation in Ballaghaderreen and, more generally, for towns and villages that need supports and have new communities. We secured a 10% increase in SICAP in budget 2022. A core target group of SICAP is asylum seekers. For this year, we have set aside €10 million for support workers for Ukraine and that...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: To clarify, is the Deputy saying that there has been a reduction of €8.5 million?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I will continue while the Deputy is checking. There was a one-off €10 million for the energy support fund, which we no longer have. In usual terms, there is actually an increase, but removing last year's one-off energy support makes it look like a decrease. There was a 10% increase in the SICAP budget in 2022 and a further increase this year. PPN workers will get an increase this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (31 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: 725. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the severe shortage of available spaces on GP lists in north County Dublin; the steps that his Department is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department is responsible for the Seniors Alert Scheme which encourages community support for vulnerable older people in our communities through the provision of personal monitored alarms to enable them to live securely in their homes with confidence, independence and peace of mind. Funding is available under the scheme towards the purchase by a registered community-based organisation of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (26 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. I acknowledge that these workers have not received a pay...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Energy Prices (26 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I was delighted to launch the Community Support Fund with funding of €10 million on 18th November last year. This fund, under the Community Enhancement Programme, is designed to assist community groups across the country. Support is available to Parish Halls, Community Centres, Local Development Associations, Social Clubs, Senior Citizen Groups, Men’s and Women’s Sheds...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (25 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: Community Employment Schemes (25 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. I acknowledge that these workers have not received a pay...

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...

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

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 404 and 405 together. 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. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Joe O'Brien: 641. To ask the Minister for Health when eligible employees of a healthcare provider (details supplied) will be paid the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3316/23]