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

Dara Calleary: The joint investigation teams between the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA), the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners have been operational since 2007. The Social Partnership Agreement 'Towards 2016', provided for greater co-ordination between organisations concerned with employment rights compliance, with a view to realising the...

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

Dara Calleary: The role of FÁS in relation to the National Drugs Strategy is to facilitate the rehabilitation of stabilised drug users and to prepare them to re-enter the active labour market through focused training which will enable them to re-integrate into working life. This is being achieved through participation in a range of FÁS programmes, including Community Employment (CE), and also integration...

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

Dara Calleary: The latest Quarterly National Household Survey published on 25 June, 2009, shows that unemployment in the Border, Midlands and Western region was 11.4%. For the Southern and Eastern region the figure was 9.7%. The figure for the country as a whole was 10.2%. The Enterprise Development agencies under the aegis of my Department are working closely and with local interests in order to maintain...

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

Dara Calleary: The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) has carried out a total of 10,445 calls, visits and inspections up to the 26th of June 2009. This compares with 11,499 for the corresponding period in 2008. The number of actual inspections increased by 94 while the number of calls and interviews decreased by 688 and 460 respectively. NERA conducted almost twice as many workplace inspections...

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

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 114 together. This year the Government have almost doubled the number of FÁS activation training and work experience places for the unemployed to over 129,000. This is a substantial increase on the 66,000 places, which were available at the end of last year. The majority of these additional places are on short courses and will be delivered through...

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

Dara Calleary: In response to the rising numbers of unemployed, 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 a significant response to the...

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

Dara Calleary: It is crucial that with the increasing numbers of people who are now unemployed that we seek to further enhance the activation and training opportunities to assist these individuals. It is vital that we ensure jobseeker's are supported, and have access to appropriate and relevant guidance, education and training services. Specifically in relation to responding to the significant numbers of...

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...