Results 821-840 of 2,335 for speaker:Joe O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned extension to a school (details supplied) to provide capacity for 1,300 pupils and a four classroom SEN base; the indicative timeline for this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60630/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the recommendation from her Department to remove the school site objective on the phase 3 Golden Ridge site in Rush, County Dublin as part of its submission to the draft Fingal County Council Development Plan 2023-2027. [60634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 338, 344 and 383 together. I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in local communities across the country.  They support CE participants to get work experience and develop future work opportunities for those who are long term unemployed, while providing essential services to local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 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. CE sponsoring bodies receive state funding to cover the salary costs of supervisors, assistant supervisors, and participant remuneration,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: The Deputy will be aware that a final settlement was reached with unions at the end of 2021 to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsoring organisations.  The settlement resolves this long-standing issue through the payment of a once off ex-gratia...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: My colleague, Minister Humphreys, published the General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill on 29 April 2022.  This General Scheme was subsequently submitted to the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands for Pre-Legislative scrutiny. This Bill is to provide for a number of amendments to the Charities Act 2009. The aim of the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

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 recent budget allocated €10m to my department to put in place a support scheme for community and voluntary organisations and charities in 2022. The Community and Voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in local communities across the country. They support CE participants to get work experience and develop future work opportunities for those who are long term unemployed, while providing essential services to local communities. As the Deputy is aware, CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 85 and 87 together. As Minister of State with responsibility for social inclusion, I have a strong interest in addressing all forms of poverty and addressing child poverty is a Government priority.The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 notes that no child in Ireland should live in poverty and that, where it happens due to adverse circumstances, available...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: Poverty proofing, or a poverty impact assessment, is the process by which policies and programmes are assessed at design, implementation and review stages, with a view to poverty reduction. The Government decided in 2012 to incorporate poverty impact assessments into an integrated social impact assessment in order to support the implementation of the national social target for poverty...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in providing work experience and development opportunities to long term unemployed and essential services to local communities. As the Deputy is aware, CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are not employees of the Department and are not public servants. They are employees of individual schemes. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 129 together. CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors sought for several years through their union representatives, SIPTU and Forsa, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 388 and 423 together. The Deputy will be aware that a final settlement was reached with unions at the end of 2021 to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsoring organisations. The settlement resolves this long-standing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 425, 437 and 460 together. CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors sought for several years through their union representatives, SIPTU and Forsa, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, following an agreement between the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Social Protection, a final settlement was reached with unions representing CE supervisors and assistant supervisors at the end of 2021 in settlement of this specific 2008 Labour Court recommendation. This settlement resolves the long-standing issue through a once...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 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. Participation on the scheme is part time - 19.5 hours per week. We are all very conscious of the important role that CE plays and we...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 807 and 808 together. The Government is aware of the challenges facing community and voluntary organisations and the charities sector, and actively responds to support the sector in meeting these challenges – be they the impact of COVID-19, the high cost of energy currently, or otherwise. We remain committed to supporting the sector through these...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline any plans to provide grant aid to hauliers seeking to convert their fleet to low emission vehicles, including gas, electric, hydrogen and hydrotreated vegetable oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors sought for several years through their union representatives, SIPTU and Forsa, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsoring organisations. A final settlement was reached with...