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Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (9 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The total income of the National Training Fund in 2008 was €419.2 million. For 2009 the income is estimated to be €405 million. A total of €381.5 million has been allocated to training schemes for 2009 and it is expected that all of this will be spent during the year. Under the terms of the National Training Act 2000, any surplus remains in the accounts of the National Training Fund...

Written Answers — Work-Life Balance: Work-Life Balance (9 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The National Framework Committee for Family Friendly Policies was established by the Social Partners in 2000 under the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness. The committee was continued and renamed in 2003, under Sustaining Progress, as the National Framework Committee for Work Life Balance Policies. The remit of the Framework Committee has been continued under the current national...

Written Answers — Training and Advisory Services: Training and Advisory Services (9 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: An annual grant is paid to assist the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in meeting the cost of providing its "Education, Training and Advisory Service" (ETAS), which provides training for union officials and activists in affiliated unions. The ETAS supports a diverse range of courses including Health and Safety, Pensions, Activist development, conflict resolution and degree courses in Business...

Written Answers — Trades Union Sector: Trades Union Sector (9 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Trade Union Act 1975 is designed to facilitate amalgamations and transfers of undertakings among trade unions by simplifying merger procedures and by making grants available from the Exchequer towards the costs incurred by unions in the process. The payment of grants is governed by section 15 of the Act, as amended by section 22 of the Industrial Relations Act 1990. The grants were paid...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The most recent information from FÁS indicates that the waiting time for FÁS training courses very much depends on the course type and location of the course. For example, there is a very short waiting time for FÁS E-College blended on-line training courses and the average waiting period for night courses would be for two or three weeks. For other courses there would be a longer waiting...

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (9 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: In 2008 the total budget provided by FÁS, to the Local Employment Service was €19,500,000 while the expenditure amounted to €19,279,125. The budget for 2009 is €20,404,000, an increase of €1,124,875 on 2008 expenditure. Details of the funding provided to each of the Local Employment Services in 2008 and 2009 is provided in the following table: Expenditure Budget € €...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (8 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 work routine and to...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (8 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos.113 and 114 together. It is not readily possible to provide a breakdown of numbers between Waterford City and County. The following table below shows the number of people in County Waterford, including Waterford City, who have received training or another service from FÁS over each of the past five years, and also in 2009 year-to-date. Year Yearly Total...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (8 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: There are currently 23,656 apprentices registered with FÁS. Of these 18,278 are currently employed and there is a cumulative total of 5,378 redundant apprentices in the period 1 January 2007 to 7 July 2009. The further information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following tabular statement. Apprentices County Redundant Currently with Employers Armagh 6 24 Carlow 60...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (8 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The number of apprentices who have been notified to FÁS as redundant for the period 1 July, 2008, to 30 June, 2009, is 3,827. FÁS has put in place a number of measures to assist apprentices who have been made redundant in progressing their apprenticeship. Over 4,000 places will be provided under the various measures outlined below. ·The Department of Social and Family Affairs immediately...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (8 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am advised by FÁS that there are currently 680 participants in community employment schemes in County Waterford. Details of the number of people employed on Community Employment projects in County Waterford in each the years 2003 – 2008 are as follows: 2003-681 2004-772 2005-760 2006-650 2008-659

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (8 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 — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (8 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 — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Towards 2016 Review and Transitional Agreement 2008-2009 provides that the Government will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit victimisation, including dismissal, and incentivisation, and to provide effective protection and means of redress to employees when engaged in the proper and legitimate exercise of their rights to trade union membership or activity on behalf of a trade...

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

Dara Calleary: The Work Placement Programme is being created in order to provide 2,000 six-month work experience places for graduates and other individuals. The aim of this scheme is to provide invaluable work experience to individuals who are unemployed, who have recently graduated from college or have very limited experience of the workplace. To date the number of individuals who have expressed an...

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. Recruitment competitions were held to bring the number of Inspectors from the original level of 31 Inspectors up to the level of 90 committed to under Towards 2016. 60 inspectors were assigned to NERA from these competitions. All NERA inspectors were recruited by way of competitive procedures,...

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

Dara Calleary: On 1 January 2006 responsibility for the Social Economy Programme transferred to the Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs and it has been re-named as the Community Services Programme. FÁS as an agency of my Department operates Job Initiative (JI). The Job Initiative Programme (JI) was launched in July 1996 and provides full time employment for people who are 35 years of age or...

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

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 and 113 together. The Short-Time Training Programme is a joint initiative between my Department and the Department of Social and Family Affairs. This Programme, which will cost €1 million, will provide 277 individuals who are working a 3-day week and are receiving social welfare payments for the other 2 days, with training for these 2 days for a period of...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (7 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Health and Safety Authority is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and associated statutory provisions. There have been 18 workplace deaths reported to the Authority to date in 2009 (as at 02.07.09). The numbers of workplace deaths reported to the Authority for the years 2002-2008 are as follows: 57 in 2008; 67 in 2007; 51...

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

Dara Calleary: The Towards 2016 Review and Transitional Agreement 2008-2009 provides for the establishment of a review process which will consider the legal and other steps which are required to enable the mechanisms addressing the issue of employee representation, which were established under previous Agreements, to operate as they had been intended. This review will be carried out under the auspices of...