Results 16,101-16,120 of 16,746 for speaker:Dara Calleary

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.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 169 together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 to 168, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Local Employment Service: Local Employment Service (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 170, 171 and 186 to 199, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2008 is being established. I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future. In responding to Question No. 111 of 8 December 2009 relating to the Local Employment Service Network,...

Written Answers — Local Employment Service: Local Employment Service (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 to 185, inclusive, together. The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2009 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: The feasibility of compiling the information requested by the Deputy for the years 1997 to 2005 is currently being established and I will supply the Deputy with whatever information is readily available in the near future.

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

Dara Calleary: I am looking into the feasibility of providing this information in the form requested by the Deputy and will reply to him substantively on this matter shortly.