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Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 173 and 214 together. There are 2,000 places on the Work Placement Programme, 1,000 for graduates and 1,000 for non-graduates. As of 27th January 2010, there have been a total of 297 people who have commenced their work placement. Graduates account for 198 of those placements with non-graduates accounting for the remaining 99 placements. There are another...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: In Budget 2010 it was announced that my Department will deliver an additional 16,000 training places for the unemployed. The additional places are comprised of several measures, which are as follows. · 9,000 additional places on FAS short training courses. · 3,500 training places to be delivered as part of Ireland's applications under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund. This EU fund...

Written Answers — Employment Strategy: Employment Strategy (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 to 181, inclusive, together. My Department has led on the advancement of an outline for a Comprehensive Employment Strategy for people with disabilities in close consultation with other Government Departments and key stakeholder representatives on the Department's Consultative Forum. The aim of this strategy is to address the diversity of circumstances,...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 186 and 187 together. I must advise the Deputy that the level of information requested in both questions is extremely detailed and would consume considerable resources within what is currently a very busy area of my Department to provide the information requested. I am sure the Deputy will appreciate that the main focus of the Redundancy Payments Section...

Written Answers — Training Programmes: Training Programmes (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: I understand that up to 15 former employees of SR Technics have received funding, through FÁS, totalling nearly €10,000 towards training under the Technical Employment Support Grant (TESG), over a period of 6 months following the redundancy announcement. FÁS has also provided funding to assist redundant apprentice aircraft mechanics who were employed by SR Technics to proceed with their...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: I set out in the following table the figures as requested by the Deputy. Employment Permits Issued Monthly by Sector for 2008 and 2009 Year New Renewals Total Issued Refused Withdrawn 2008 8521 5000 13521 2225 339 Jan 1042 1069 2111 245 45 Agriculture & Fisheries 34 56 90 7 1 Catering 111 273 384 76 14 Domestic 16 35 51 3 2 Education 32 47 79 4 1 Entertainment 9 3 12 1 0 ...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: The cost of operating the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) in 2009 was €7.94 million. The pay related aspects of running the office amounted to €6.55 million and, non-pay elements represented a cost of €1.39 million. Section WRF follows.

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (2 Feb 2010)

Dara Calleary: According to the most recent QNHS, Quarter 3 2009, employment in the Mid-East region, which includes Kildare has increased by 6,400 and unemployment has increased by 22,800 in the past five years. QNHS Q3-Mid East 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Employment 228,300 238,600 257,200 250,000 234,700 Unemployment 9,100 8,800 10,500 15,400 31,900 Source CSO Quarterly National Household Survey Quarter...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can advise the Deputy that, as I indicated in my reply to Question No. 77 of 1 December 2009, my Department issued a cheque to the individual in question at the address supplied on the RP 50 form submitted to my Department. It appears that the cheque was intercepted and cashed by someone other than the payee. I understand that the Garda was asked by the claimant to investigate the matter...

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The industrial dispute involving workers from the company in question resulted from workers' concerns over the company's cost cutting proposals, involving redundancies and the introduction of new contracts of employment for the remaining workforce. The issues were referred to the Labour Court under section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969. The union undertook to be bound by the...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I can confirm to the Deputy that the correspondence received by my Department from the company in question on 7 January 2010 has been responded to and the issues raised therein have been addressed.

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I understand that no claims have yet been received to date in 2010 under the Insolvency Payments Scheme or the Redundancy Payments Scheme on behalf of the workers in Sigma Telecom or Sigma Wireless. There are some paid claims on this Department's files dating from some years ago as well as in 2009 in the case of Sigma Telecom. There is also one single outstanding claim from Sigma Wireless...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: In order to participate on the Work Placement Programme participants must be unemployed. Unemployed individuals not in receipt of any social welfare payment can participate in the Programme immediately. However, unemployed individuals who are receiving social welfare payments and wish to retain these payments for their duration on the Work Placement Programme must be in receipt of these...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: Depending on the type of training, assistance may be available to enterprises to train their employees under the Skillnets Training Networks Programme and FÁS Competency Development Programme. Further details of these programmes are available from the respective organisations. The Skillnets website is www.skillnets.ie and their telephone number is 01 2079630.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (28 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: FÁS employment services division, through its network of offices, provides vocational guidance and support to individual clients who are seeking to re-enter employment or avail of training. To facilitate this process FÁS employment services can fund certain training requirements through a FÁS technical employment support grant. The technical employment support grant has been designed to...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (27 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides funding to a number of State Agencies, including the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) and Enterprise Ireland, through whom assistance is delivered to businesses. Subject to certain eligibility criteria, new and developing micro-enterprises may qualify for financial support from the CEBs in the form of priming, expansion/development and feasibility/innovation...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The data is currently being collated and will be provided to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Benchmarking Awards: Benchmarking Awards (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: Labour Court Recommendation 18921 recommended that Job Initiative Team Leaders should receive the appropriate Benchmarking payments under similar terms as applied to the Community Employment Supervisors. A validation process was then undertaken to pay Phases 3 and 4 of the Towards 2016 pay agreement to Job Initiative Team Leaders. This was essentially the same validation process used to...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The FÁS Agency Statement, setting out its income and expenditure for each of the years in question, is included in the Revised Estimates Volume, published after each Budget and is publicly available.