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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. 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 wish to...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. 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 can...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. 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 can...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 11 and 17 together. The Towards 2016 Review and Transitional Agreement 2008 – 2009 (paras 9.1 – 9.3) provides for the establishment of a review process to consider the legal and other steps necessary to enable the employee representation mechanisms that had been established under previous agreements – and in legislation – to operate as they had been...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (2 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 21 and 37 together. A recent study entitled "Review of Labour Force Competitiveness", undertaken by Forfás for my Department, concluded that while 4.9 percent of employees in Ireland (83,700) were earning €8.65 per hour or less in October 2007, it is likely that the national minimum wage actually influences the wage levels of another 26 percent of the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 28 and 45 together. My Department currently administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. 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...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (2 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: I assume the Question relates to the number of employees who are paid sub-minimum rates under the National Minimum Wage Act, 2000 by virtue of them being under the age of 18 or undergoing recognised training. Estimates from the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey, as undertaken by the Central Statistics Office, indicate that there were approximately 52,000 employees paid at or below...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (2 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: Ireland's body of employment rights legislation protects all workers employed on an employer-employee basis in Ireland. The Protection of Employee's (Part-Time) Work Act, 2001 provides that all employee protection legislation applies to a person, irrespective of his or her nationality or place of residence, who has entered into a contract of employment that provides for his or her being...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that this claim has very recently been authorised for payment on behalf of the individual concerned. The individual should expect to receive payment of the redundancy entitlement due very shortly.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: The Deputy is being very ageist.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Dara Calleary: Neither I nor any other members of the Government wish to delay the budgetary process. On the contrary, we are all working as hard as we can to deliver budget 2011 on 7 December. After that date we will do everything in our power to conclude all budget-related matters within the shortest time scale that is consistent with properly fulfilling all required technical and legal procedures....

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: In my earlier reply to the Deputy on this matter on 9 November, 2010, I indicated that it is not my Department's policy and practice to disclose details of redundancy rebate payments relating to specific companies for reasons of data confidentiality. Given the size of the companies referred to, it would be normal for my Department to have, at any given time, claims on hand for processing....

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. 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 can...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department processes applications in respect of the different types of employment permits - Green Cards Permits, Work Permits, Spousal/Dependant Permits and Intra-company Transfer Permits. All applications are processed in line with the Employment Permits Act 2006. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that a Work Permit issued in this case on the 30th September, 2010.

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: While the Employment Appeals Tribunal operates under the aegis of my Department, it is independent in the discharge of its quasi-judicial function - I have no role in the scheduling of individual cases for Hearing. The Tribunal Secretariat will be in contact with the claimant about the scheduled date of his hearing.

Written Answers — National Recovery Plan: National Recovery Plan (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: I have consistently held that we need to ensure that these wage fixing mechanisms work effectively and efficiently and that they do not have a negative impact on economic performance and employment levels. As the Deputy will also be aware, I have proposed to introduce an inability to pay mechanism for both Registered Employment Agreements and Employment Regulation Orders in the Industrial...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: Access to the employment dispute settling bodies under the Industrial Relations Acts is governed by the definition of "worker" in Section 23 of the Industrial Relations Act 1990. Workers not included within this definition are normally covered by separate schemes of Conciliation and Arbitration. Section 23(1)(e) of the 1990 Act excludes, inter alia, "an officer of a vocational education...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social Protection. 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 can...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (30 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: Estimates from the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey, as undertaken by the Central Statistics Office, indicate that there were approximately 52,000 employees paid at or below the national minimum wage of €8.65 per hour as of the second quarter of 2010. This represented 3.4% of all employees. Reliable data on the number of workers who come within the scope of Employment...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: I assume the question relates specifically to amending the definition of "worker" under the Industrial Relations Act 1990. Access to the employment dispute settling bodies under the Industrial Relations Acts is governed by the definition of "worker" in Section 23 of the Industrial Relations Act 1990. Workers not included within this definition are normally covered by separate schemes of...