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Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (22 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The position in relation to the person mentioned has not changed since the Deputy raised the issue on 5th February, 5th March and 6th of May, 2009, and for ease of reference the relevant details previously mentioned are outlined below. As there are no records of a claim relating to this person either on the Redundancy Payments System or, I am informed, on the Employment Appeals Tribunal...

Written Answers — Job Initiatives: Job Initiatives (22 Sep 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...

Job Initiative Programme. (22 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghlacadh leis an Teachta as ucht an cheist seo anocht. FÁS employment services comprise the community employment and job initiative programmes. As Deputy Rabbitte outlined, the job initiative programme was launched by him in July 1996 and continues to provide full-time employment for people who are 35 years of age or over, unemployed for five years or more, and...

Schools Building Projects. (22 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Lynch for raising the issue and sympathise with him on last weekend's all-Ireland result. I share his pain. The Minister for Education and Science could not come to the House and asked me to take this matter for him. Modernising facilities in existing building stock as well as the need to respond to emerging needs in areas of rapid population growth such as that referred to...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I wish to share time with Deputy Mary Alexandra White.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: We are coming to the end of the first phase of what has been an extraordinary 12 months not just in the life of the country, but also in the life of the world. Last Monday marked the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, bringing with it the oil that for whatever reason was powering most of the international banking system. That in addition to our own domestic issues has led...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I have no difficulty in taking him on. It is wrong to throw around figures like that and it is unfortunate. The Deputy brings expertise and experience that may not be here.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: However, let him live up to the declaration he made when he decided to run that he wanted to change the way politics operates, a criticism of every Deputy in this House, including Deputy Bernard Durkan. He said he wanted to engage in politics and offer solutions. We have a solution so let him input his expertise and experience on Committee Stage.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: NAMA is certainly not a get-out clause and I welcome Deputy Simon Coveney's remarks that he saw it as not being a get-out clause for the developers and those that fate has thrown around. Loans will be followed up. Those who have the loans will still be followed up in the same fashion as they were previously. While NAMA will ultimately solve the fiduciary and monetary issues facing our...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: -----along the same lines as was done when it was chaired by the late former Deputy, Jim Mitchell. That produced results and showed that this House can work. We do not need tribunals to do it.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: Let us do it again. I would certainly support that happening in this House. I cannot imagine that either Deputy Durkan or the Acting Chairman, Deputy Ardagh, would charge €100 million to do it.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: There are taxpayer guarantees. This morning Deputy Enda Kenny and this evening Deputy George Lee criticised the fact that bank shares rose this morning while ignoring the fact that the share price increase means the yield and return to the Government will increase through our shares in Bank of Ireland and AIB and that this value will assist us in the future. Since the legislation was...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received a number of statutory Lump Sum applications from the relevant individuals in respect of their former employment with Taylor Made Glass Systems (Insolvent). My understanding is that the lump sum applications for the former employees of Taylor Made Glass are currently being...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Supreme Court judgement of 30th April 2009 allowed the report of the inspector to be circulated to certain bodies. These certain bodies are those as listed in the interlocutory order made by the High Court on 22 April 2005 and are as follows – (i) the Garda National Immigration Bureau (ii) the Competition Authority (iii) the Director of Corporate Enforcement (iv) the Garda Fraud Squad...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (17 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: This application was refused on the grounds it is current Government policy to issue new employment permits only for highly skilled, highly paid positions or for non-EEA nationals who are already legally resident in the State on valid employment permits or where there is an officially recognised scarcity of workers of a particular type or qualification. Furthermore, the position on offer is...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (17 Sep 2009)

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. The...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: Section 9 of the Redundancy Payments Act 2003 amended section 39(2)(b) of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 by providing that Vice-Chairmen of the Employment Appeals Tribunal should, before their appointment, each have had not less than 5 years experience as a practising barrister or practising solicitor. That was meant to be an underpinning, in legislation, of the fact that Vice Chairmen have...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170 and 191 together. The Government introduced an Employment Subsidy Scheme (Temporary) in the context of rising unemployment to help employees retain their jobs while at the same time assisting employers in retaining their productive capacity. The purpose of the scheme is to support the maintenance of vulnerable jobs and thereby: Help the economy retain its...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am advised by FÁS that there has been no withdrawal of funding for the Return to Education Programme and contracts are currently being prepared and issued for the next term.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: I propose to takes Questions Nos. 175 to 181, inclusive, and 202 together. The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received a number of statutory Lump Sum applications from the relevant individuals in respect of their former employment with Irish Dresden (In Liquidation). My understanding is that the lump sum applications for the former employees of Irish Dresden are currently...