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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (14 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: A Public Participation Network (PPN) is a structure that brings together volunteer-led groups in each local authority area from the Community and Voluntary, Environment, and Social Inclusion sectors. The PPNs are the main link between these groups and their local authorities, and they enable the groups to make their voices heard within formal local decision-making structures. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (14 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: Local Development Companies (LDCs) across Ireland deliver over €300 million of state-funded programmes each year, acting as community partners for government agencies and Departments, while supporting more than 15,000 communities and community groups and 173,000 individuals. One of these programmes is my Department’s Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP)...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I want to confirm this evening that under the increased allocation to the community development programme of my Department, I will be in a position to improve a key funding mechanism for the community and voluntary sector in Ireland. A scheme to support national organisations is one of the main multi-annual funding mechanisms that Government uses to support the community and voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 147 and 151 together. As the Deputy will be aware, CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors have been seeking for several years, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who are employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors have been seeking for several years, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsors. This claim creates some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 547. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of neurology nurse specialists in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49481/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (12 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 689 and 690 together. The emergence of the Men’s Sheds in recent years has been a very positive development for communities across Ireland. They provide a safe, comfortable and inclusive environment where people of all ages can share skills and work on meaningful projects and connect with their communities. My Department is providing a range of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: We very much value the community employment schemes, not only for what they provide for the individual involved but very much for the community services also. In recognition of this, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and I will be involved in an operational forum with sponsors and other stakeholders from throughout the country. We will hear issues such as those outlined by the Deputy. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: This will allow community employment schemes a little bit more time to fill the places. The good news is that in recent weeks, referrals are ramping up. We should be looking at a better situation on the ground for CE schemes over the coming months.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 and 26 together. As the Deputy is aware, the CE scheme is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in meaningful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed-term basis to improve their prospect of returning to employment. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for her question. Currently, there are 1,400 service support stream participants on CE schemes. There are 500 places available for people over the age of 62 on the schemes. Up to 10% of CE placements are available under the service support stream. That limit is set on a divisional basis so there is also flexibility between schemes in a particular area. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Rural Social Scheme (RSS) is an income support scheme providing part-time employment opportunities for farmers and fishermen or women who are in receipt of specified social welfare payments, and who are underemployed in their primary occupation. The scheme offers participants the opportunity to gain valuable work experience in their communities. Following a Government decision in 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: My Department provides a range of employment support schemes including Community Employment (CE) and Tús. These supports are specifically targeted at those people who have been unemployed for 12 months or more. The aim of CE and Tús is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and long-term unemployed people by providing valuable work experience opportunities. CE also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 75 together. The Department of Social Protection delivers a range of active labour market employment support schemes including Community Employment (CE), and Tús to provide opportunities for long term unemployed persons gain valuable work experience by working within their local communities. Building on the July Jobs Stimulus and as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020 - 2025 is a whole of Government strategy that aims to reduce the number of people in consistent poverty in Ireland to 2% or less. The Roadmap contains seven high level goals with 22 specific targets, which will be delivered by 66 unique commitments. Implementation of Roadmap commitments is underway with a number of commitments fully achieved or close...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 63, 84 and 88 together. As the Deputy will be aware, CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors have been seeking for several years, through their union representatives, the allocation of Exchequer funding to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who are employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: On clarification with the Deputy's office, the question refers to whether people that are employed as crew members on a fishing vessel, but who do not themselves hold the fishing licence for that vessel, can access the rural social scheme (RSS). RSS is an income support initiative providing part-time employment opportunities for farmers or fishermen and fisherwomen in receipt of certain...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Rural Social Scheme (RSS) is an income support scheme for low income farmers and fishermen and women, who are underemployed in their primary occupation. To be eligible to participate on RSS, a person must be aged 25 or over, in receipt of Farm/Fish Assist or another qualifying means-tested social welfare payment, and meet the criteria for either a self-employed farmer or a fisherman. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy is aware, Community Employment (CE) Scheme 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 temporary, fixed term basis to improve their prospect of returning to employment. Most recent changes to CE were emergency measures...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020 - 2025 aims to reduce the number of people in consistent poverty in Ireland to 2% or less, and to position Ireland within the top five countries in the EU under a number of leading social inclusion measures. The Roadmap includes a specific goal to protect the incomes of older people through the delivery of the commitment to benchmark State pension...