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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: Table 1 sets out the number of statutory redundancies for years 2002 to 2008 and provisional figures for January to June 2009. These figures reflect the number of employees who actually qualified for statutory redundancy lump sum payments. They do not reflect those who lost their jobs with less than two years service in employment. It is not possible to project the number of redundancies...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation : Proposed Legislation (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am confident the Employment Agency Regulation Bill can be published shortly as drafting has now been completed.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: In response to the rising numbers of unemployed including graduates, the Government has formulated and implemented a realistic and practical strategy to prioritise the activation and training of such individuals. My Department, along with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Department of Education and Science, have been working closely together to ensure we respond to this...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The number of apprentices notified to FÁS as redundant since 1st January 2008 is 4,933, of these 1,322 have been referred, hence leaving a balance of 3,611. An apprentice who has been referred has not yet successfully completed all elements of their required assessments and is therefore required to re-sit their outstanding off-the-job modular assessments before they can progress in their...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 109 together. In terms of unemployment the Government is acutely aware of the negative impacts that unemployment can have on an individual, their family and society as a whole and has invested substantial resources in addressing the unemployment problem. FÁS employment services together with Local Employment Services have put in place measures...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: FÁS Job Clubs were introduced in 1999 to assist people who were actively seeking employment by providing support for the job search process and an environment in which it could be carried out. Independent Sponsor Groups are contracted by FÁS on a year to year basis to run the programme. Job Clubs are seen as an important resource and intervention for those who have recently completed...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department is currently processing the statutory lump sum payment applications in respect of the individuals in question. The necessary support documentation from the Liquidator was recently submitted for checking and assuming the information supplied is in order, it will be possible to process the applications quickly.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: 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 their experience of unemployment through a return to...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 122 and 123 together. The aim of the Work Placement Programme is to put in place a structured mechanism that will provide vital work experience and training opportunities for the broadest number of individuals and also provide invaluable work experience for unemployed persons, including graduates, to improve their skills and to help them into employment as...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received a redundancy lump sum application in the case of the individual concerned. I understand that the person concerned has been in direct contact with the Redundancy Payments Section recently and a copy of the RP50 form was sent by post to the individual last week.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am advised that FÁS is aware that there are a number of sitting Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas on the Sponsoring Committees of Community Employment (CE) projects. In order to accurately establish and confirm the exact numbers and names, it will be necessary to contact all of the CE Sponsors (over 1,100 Sponsors with at least 7 members on each) through our regional management to...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) currently has in place a team of 77 Inspectors. They are all employed under the standard terms and conditions governing Civil Servants in general. Inspectors are entitled to receive travel and subsistence in respect of expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties. There are no proposals at present to increase the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: It is up to the employer in the first instance to pay statutory redundancy entitlement to employees. When an employer does so, he is entitled to claim a rebate of 60% from the Social Insurance Fund. If the employer is unable to pay the statutory amount, then the employee can, ultimately, be paid directly by my Department from the Fund. In such cases, 40% of each statutory redundancy lump...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The specific information requested by the Deputy is not available to me however, the table outlines the number of redundancies notified to my Department for County Cork for the period 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2009 and may be of interest to the Deputy. Currently, the average time it takes to process rebate applications from employers filed online is 6 months while claims submitted by post are...

Job Losses (2 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Fleming for raising this matter on the Adjournment. I am aware of the situation in Rathdowney and am concerned about the situation at the plant in question. I understand jobs are being transferred to Grannagh, County Waterford, as part of the company's rationalisation strategy to bring scale to its boning activities. I am aware of the effect the transferring of these jobs...

Job Losses (2 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy O'Shea for raising this important issue. I will give the House the most up-to-date information on the unemployment situation in Waterford. The most recent live register figures that are broken down by region were published in May. They showed that 13,661 people - 9,047 male and 4,614 female - were signing on the register in County Waterford at that time. The national live...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Graduate Scheme enables non-EEA students who complete their degree in Ireland to obtain a 6-month extension to their student residence permission from the Garda National Immigration Bureau in order that they may have time to seek full-time employment post-graduation. Where such a student obtains a job offer, they may apply to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for either a...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: 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. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Employment Permits Section informs me that an application in respect of the above named was received on the 24th June 2009.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: Under the Redundancy Payments Scheme all eligible employees are entitled to a statutory redundancy lump sum payment on being made redundant. A redundancy situation arises in general where an employee's job no longer exists and he/she is not replaced. I understand that the Redundancy Section of my Department has on record an application from the individual concerned. When an employer is not...