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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...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: FÁS does not run any Building Energy Rating (BER) course on a fee-paying basis. The FÁS training centre in Cabra provides BER training to unemployed persons at no direct cost to the individual trainees. This is the only such course run by FÁS. It is delivered as a mainline day course and participation on it is reserved for persons who are out of work.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: My Department and FÁS have been working together over the last number of months to put in place measures to assist up to 3,600 apprentices who have been made redundant due to the current downturn. A number of initiatives to assist such apprentices have been put in place to date: The Department of Social and Family Affairs immediately on registration refer redundant apprentices to FÁS for...

Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his good wishes and, in his absence, I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his. I thank Senators Boyle and de Búrca for giving me the opportunity to speak to the House about the Government's labour market activation policies, which we have adopted and initiated in light of the present very difficult economic circumstances. Everybody agrees that the present...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Employment Permits Section informs me that an application in respect of the above named was received on 3 June 2009. The section is currently processing applications received in the second week of April 2009 and therefore a decision will not issue on this application for another six-eight weeks.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: My Department and FÁS have been working together over the last number of months to put in place measures to assist up to 3,600 apprentices who have been made redundant due to the current downturn. A number of initiatives to assist such apprentices have been put in place to date: The Department of Social and Family Affairs immediately on registration refer redundant apprentices to FÁS for...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the correspondence dated 5 June 2009 from the individual in question has been responded to.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: The National Employment Action Plan Preventive Strategy (NEAP) involves a systematic referral of certain cohorts of registered unemployed persons by the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) to FÁS for assistance. Department of Social and Family Affairs National Employment Action Plan (NEAP) referrals to FÁS Employment Services, Cork, in the second quarter of 2009 totalled,...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: In a reply given in regard to the company in question on 16 June last, I outlined the criteria in relation to the right of employees to receive redundancy entitlement under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 — 2007. This provides that employees who have two years continuous service with an employer, are aged 16 years or over and are in employment which is insurable for all benefits under...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: In order to respond effectively to the growing numbers of unemployed through the provision of work placements I, in conjunction with my colleague the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin jointly launched the work placement programme on 27 May last. The proposal by the City and County Managers Association and other similar proposals were considered as part of the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: FÁS is aware of a number of sitting Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas being on the sponsoring committees of community employment projects. The Community Employment Operating Guidelines state that the work programme of a sponsor should not involve any specific promotional-advocacy of a specific political party or the policies of a specific political party. Sponsors applying for a...

Written Answers — Insolvency Payments Scheme: Insolvency Payments Scheme (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I can confirm that between March and May of this year, my Department has received 1,623 applications under the Insolvency Payments Scheme for Arrears of Wages, Holiday Pay and Minimum Notice on behalf of the former employees of Waterford Crystal. These claims are currently being processed. It has however been necessary to seek further information from the Receiver and a response is...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I have no plans to amend the rules governing the entry requirements to the work placement programme at this time. The objective of the work placement programme is to provide work experience for unemployed persons, including graduates, to improve their skills and to help them into employment as soon as possible. Specifically focusing on persons who have been on the live register for a period...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: Under the Redundancy Payment Scheme, Employers who give proper notice of redundancy (at least two weeks) to employees, and pay the statutory redundancy entitlement to those employees, are entitled to receive a 60% rebate from the Social Insurance Fund into which employers make regular payments through P.R.S.I. contributions. The attached table sets out the monetary value of Rebate and Lump...