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Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. As is evident from the White Paper we published at the end of February, our intention is to create a new system of support for international protection applicants that is fundamentally different from the current model. We need a system that meets the needs of applicants and enables them to contribute positively to Irish life. I have visited many...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (22 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of disadvantaged and unemployed people by providing valuable work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities.  They are actively encouraged to avail of training to enhance their employability in the labour market.  The programme helps break the cycle of unemployment and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (22 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 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 temporary, fixed term basis. In general CE placements for new entrants aged between 21 and 55 years are for 1 year.  As the Deputy is aware,  CE...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Search and Rescue Service Provision (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the difficulties his Department has experienced maintaining the continuous public emergency service provision of rescue boats, blue light response and cliff rescue over the past 24 months; and the timeline for the resumption of the suspended cliff rescue services. [19515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Electric Vehicles (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the proposed inclusion for the new electric vehicle charging guidance in the second edition of the TGD 033 School Building Projects and Compliance with Part L of the Building Regulations 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: As the Deputy will be aware, the Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 - Our Rural Future, was published on 29 March 2021, which represents a new milestone in the approach to rural development in Ireland. The Policy is supported by 150 commitments across Government, which will address the challenges facing communities and deliver new opportunities for people living in rural areas. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment Scheme (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and others with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities. The contract agreement between the Department and the CE sponsoring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment Scheme (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and others with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities who are the legal employers of their CE supervisors, CE assistant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Rural Social Scheme (RSS) is an income support scheme which provides part-time employment opportunities in community and voluntary organisations for farmers or fishermen and women who are in receipt of certain social welfare payments and who are underemployed in their primary occupation. In return, people participating in the RSS provide valuable services that benefit their rural...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 1989. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to allowing persons who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 to be exempt from mandatory hotel-based quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19517/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 1708. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with spina bifida hydrocephalus are included in cohort 4 of the vaccine allocation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18743/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Initiatives (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities, the five-year strategy to support the community and voluntary sector in Ireland, is an ambitious strategy which sets a general direction of travel for Government policy in relation to community development, local development and the community and voluntary sector for the coming years. With a number of high level objectives and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2586 and 2587 together. My Department's Community Services Programme (CSP) supports over 420 community organisations to provide local services through a social enterprise model. The CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution of €19,033 for each fulltime equivalent (FTE) position being supported, and, where warranted, provides €32,000...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (19 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I thank the Senator for consistently raising this matter. Community employment, CE, is the largest employment activation and training programme administered by the Department of Social Protection. One of its main objectives is to provide work experience and targeted training interventions for long-term unemployed people to assist them to find new jobs. The CE programme is delivered by...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (19 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: I absolutely agree with the Senator on the role CE schemes will hopefully play going forward. Last year, 3,000 additional CE places were announced in the July stimulus. We have been putting out feelers about the levels of interest in them and the levels are good. Schemes such as community employment will play a central part in bringing communities back from where we have been over the last...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (1 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that will be put in place to ensure workers on lay off will be able to access statutory redundancy payments swiftly in the event that their employment is no longer available after the current Covid-19 restrictions on redundancy are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17841/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment Scheme (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 temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities that operate in the community and voluntary sector....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment Scheme (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 temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent CE sponsoring authorities that operate in the community and voluntary sector....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: Officials of my Department have written to representatives of the association concerned in January 2021, informing them of the next and required steps necessary to apply for additional places on an existing project, and confirming that the Department was available to support and advise on any matters relating to the successful outcome of an application. The documentation required and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (1 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Brien: 254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of efforts to provide access to paid maternity leave for parents of children born via surrogacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17727/21]