Results 14,201-14,220 of 14,841 for speaker:Dara Calleary

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can confirm to the Deputy that the correspondence received by my Department from the company in question on 7 January 2010 has been responded to and the issues raised therein have been addressed.

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I understand that no claims have yet been received to date in 2010 under the Insolvency Payments Scheme or the Redundancy Payments Scheme on behalf of the workers in Sigma Telecom or Sigma Wireless. There are some paid claims on this Department's files dating from some years ago as well as in 2009 in the case of Sigma Telecom. There is also one single outstanding claim from Sigma Wireless...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: In order to participate on the Work Placement Programme participants must be unemployed. Unemployed individuals not in receipt of any social welfare payment can participate in the Programme immediately. However, unemployed individuals who are receiving social welfare payments and wish to retain these payments for their duration on the Work Placement Programme must be in receipt of these...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: Depending on the type of training, assistance may be available to enterprises to train their employees under the Skillnets Training Networks Programme and FÁS Competency Development Programme. Further details of these programmes are available from the respective organisations. The Skillnets website is www.skillnets.ie and their telephone number is 01 2079630.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: FÁS employment services division, through its network of offices, provides vocational guidance and support to individual clients who are seeking to re-enter employment or avail of training. To facilitate this process FÁS employment services can fund certain training requirements through a FÁS technical employment support grant. The technical employment support grant has been designed to...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (27 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides funding to a number of State Agencies, including the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) and Enterprise Ireland, through whom assistance is delivered to businesses. Subject to certain eligibility criteria, new and developing micro-enterprises may qualify for financial support from the CEBs in the form of priming, expansion/development and feasibility/innovation...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The data is currently being collated and will be provided to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Benchmarking Awards: Benchmarking Awards (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: Labour Court Recommendation 18921 recommended that Job Initiative Team Leaders should receive the appropriate Benchmarking payments under similar terms as applied to the Community Employment Supervisors. A validation process was then undertaken to pay Phases 3 and 4 of the Towards 2016 pay agreement to Job Initiative Team Leaders. This was essentially the same validation process used to...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The FÁS Agency Statement, setting out its income and expenditure for each of the years in question, is included in the Revised Estimates Volume, published after each Budget and is publicly available.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 169 together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 to 168, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Local Employment Service: Local Employment Service (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170, 171 and 186 to 199, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2008 is being established. I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future. In responding to Question No. 111 of 8 December 2009 relating to the Local Employment Service Network,...

Written Answers — Local Employment Service: Local Employment Service (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 to 185, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2005 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am looking into the feasibility of providing this information in the form requested by the Deputy and will reply to him substantively on this matter shortly.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2008 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: A lay off situation arises where an employee's employment ceases by reason of his/her employer being unable to provide the work for which the employee was employed and where it is reasonable in the circumstances for that employer to believe that the cessation of employment will not be permanent. The employer must however give notice to that effect to the employee prior to the cessation. If...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: Under the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 - 2007, the objective is to ensure that statutory redundancy payments, due to eligible employees on being made redundant, are made in accordance with the legislative provisions. The legislation places the onus, in the first instance, on the employer to discharge the obligation to pay redundancy entitlement to employees. On so doing, the employer is...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The following tables contain details of the number of persons engaged in Community Employment and Job Initiative on a county basis for the years 2008 and 2009. Community Employment Places (Inc. Supervisors) County At Year End 2008 At Year End 2009 Carlow 325 322 Cavan 224 225 Clare 573 574 Cork 2,125 2,140 Donegal 1,145 1,120 Dublin 6,001 6,428 Galway 1,447 1,451 Kerry 973 959...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I wish to refer the Deputy to the reply given to Parliamentary Question 47245/09 of 16 December 2009 and to supplementary figures relating to FÁS and Skillnets training emailed to him on 18 December 2009. In addition, 5,042 persons availed of FÁS evening courses and 912 persons availed of FÁS on-line training courses in 2008. Unfortunately, statistics for evening courses and on-line...