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

Dara Calleary: As stated in the reply to the Deputy on 16th December 2009 the Social Welfare linked allowances paid to participants on Community Employment (CE) and Jobs Initiative (JI) programmes and FÁS training courses were reduced in Budget 2009 in line with the Budget reductions to Social Welfare recipients. The FÁS additional allowance for participants on CE and JI have been reduced from €24.40...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: In 2009, the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) conducted a total of 208 inspections in county Kildare. Of this total, 7 inspections related to restaurants. In 2008, NERA conducted a total of 301 inspections in county Kildare. Of this total, 31 inspections related to restaurants. The inspections undertaken on restaurants were carried out under the Catering Employment Regulation...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

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

Dara Calleary: In December 2009 the Tánaiste announced that an additional 500 places would be provided on the Community Employment (CE) Scheme bringing the total number of participants to 23,300. The current eligibility criteria set by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for entry onto the Community Employment programme allows for the combination of periods on different social welfare...

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

Dara Calleary: The Community Employment Scheme participant payments are comprised of their Social Welfare entitlement and a weekly allowance. The Jobseeker's Allowance was reduced by 4.1% in the December budget while the CE allowance was reduced by from €24.40 to €20 per week. The cuts in CE were necessary to fund increased activation measures in 2010 including an additional 500 CE places to bring the...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009 for the consideration of the Dáil and I wish to acknowledge the input of the Members of Seanad Éireann who discussed this Bill in the autumn session. The main purpose of the Bill is to strengthen the existing system for the making of both employment regulation orders...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (21 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: FÁS Employment Services provides a range of services and supports to all Jobseeker's, including Jobseeker's who have been made redundant. Clients can register at one of the 71 local FÁS Employment Service offices nationwide, for on-site career guidance and job placement services. Various initiatives have also been but in place to assist the growing number of redundant workers and the...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (21 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The Community Youth Training Programme was introduced in the late 1980's and provided training for unemployed construction workers and time served apprentices to complete industry approved community based training projects. In 1993 the new Standards Based Apprenticeship Scheme was introduced which required apprentices to be registered with a FÁS approved employer, who has the range of work,...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (21 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 and 78 together. The Work Placement Programme provides up to 9 months work experience to 2,000 unemployed individuals, including graduates. The Programme is open to all sectors of the economy, including the private and public sectors, as well as the community and voluntary sectors. The aim of the Programme is to assist unemployed people, including...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (21 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in a table: FÁS Staff 2007 2008 2009 2265.46 2272.14 2055.4 Of the numbers indicated above 99.35 persons were employed on fixed-term contracts in 2007; 90.1 persons likewise in 2008 and 10.5 persons in 2009. Information on temporary staff is currently being compiled and will be communicated to the Deputy when it is available.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (21 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The Work Placement Programme provides up to 9 months work experience to 2,000 unemployed individuals, including graduates. The Programme is open to all sectors of the economy, including the private and public sectors, as well as the community and voluntary sectors. The aim of the Programme is to assist unemployed people, including graduates, to establish or maintain links to the labour...

Seanad: Employment and Competitiveness: Statements (21 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Members of the Seanad for taking the time to discuss this vital question. I have taken a good deal of note of the discussions, especially in the past hour. As Members are aware, the purpose of the exercise is to discuss the measures the Government has introduced to protect existing employment, assist those who have lost their jobs and improve Ireland's economic competitiveness....

Job Creation. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputies O'Donnell and Deenihan for raising this issue and acknowledge the regular contact we have received from Deputy O'Donnell on the issue of the globalisation fund over the past number of months. As the House is aware, the mid-west task force completed an interim report which was presented to the Minister by the chairman, Mr. Denis Brosnan, last July. A number of national and...

Substance Abuse. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and I welcome the opportunity provided by Deputy Clune to make a statement to the House on the issue of head shops. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and regulations made thereunder regulate and control the import, export, production, supply and possession of a range of named...

Tourism Promotion. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Deputies for raising the issue. As both of them stated, the matter of applying to the organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race to host a stopover of the event is primarily the responsibility of the host port, which is comparable, for example, to the manner in which a golf venue bids with the PGA European Tour to host the Irish Open. The promoters who initiated the process that led to...

Tourism Promotion. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The current overall Exchequer position is not favourable towards the provision of funding for such large-scale sports tourism events. There are pressures on the tourism services budget of the Department and that position is unlikely to change in the next few years. The current commercial funding environment is difficult and I fully understand why the Irish promoters wish to first secure a...

Tourism Promotion. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The confirmation of one or several private sector sponsors at this stage would be essential to strengthen the promoters' case for State support. However, the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism and his Department has continued to engage with the promoters with a view to considering and assessing the case for support and will revert to them in due course. I will bring the Deputies' concerns...

School Libraries. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Kitt for raising this issue and I acknowledge the work he did as a Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. I will reply to him on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Keeffe, and the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey. The Deputy is aware that a number of difficult decisions have had to be taken with regard to the management of the...

Written Answers — Apprentice Work Placements: Apprentice Work Placements (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 to 135, inclusive, together. The number of apprentices within 6 to 12 months of completion of their apprenticeship without a job placement is currently 3,080. Of these, 495 are currently attending Phase 6 off-the-job training at an Institute of Technology. A total of 5,338 apprenticeships have been notified to FÁS as being halted as a result of...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136 and 137 together. 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 fixed term basis. The purpose of CE is to help unemployed people to re-enter the open labour market by breaking...