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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: In general, the issue of targeted supports for businesses is a matter for the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. There are no proposals for a PRSI rebate for SMEs. Any changes to the PRSI employer rates or threshold would have to be considered in a budgetary context, taking account of the economic circumstances and with a view to the sustainability of the Social Insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: The primary responsibility for housing and managing homelessness lies with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the local authorities. This responsibility includes the accommodation needs of young persons leaving all forms of State care. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has responsibility for after care provision, for young...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit is a new social insurance income support, linked to previous earnings, which has replaced the Jobseeker's Benefit scheme for people whose first day of unemployment is on or after 31 March 2025. This means that in order to be eligible to apply for the scheme, a person's last day of employment must have been on or after Friday 28 March 2025. A commencement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department has no current requirement for a data collection and database construction in anticipation of the presumed increased data processing capacity that artificial intelligence adoption entails.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department does not currently have any projects underway with the company referred to.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: There are four bodies under the aegis of my Department; The Citizens Information Board, The Pensions Authority, The Pensions Council and The Social Welfare Tribunal. All of these bodies have confirmed that they do not have any projects with the company referred to.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department is currently examining the potential future use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technologies. This has involved active participation in several stakeholder groups, such as, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's working group on the implementation of EU AI Act. The use of A.I. is not currently being examined by any policy area in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department has not developed its own training in relation to AI. However, staff in the Department may avail of training courses on Artificial Intelligence provided by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Institute of Public Administration, or other providers.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides a range of supports including approximately 87 million individual payments, over 3 million income support applications and over 900,000 employment support activities each year. Customers may contact my Department through a range of channels. This includes by phone, post, email and online via MyWelfare. Data is not collated on the number of letters received from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department provides a range of supports including approximately 87 million individual payments, over 3 million income support applications and over 900,000 employment support activities each year. Customers may contact my Department through a range of channels. This includes by phone, post, email and online via MyWelfare. A breakdown of emails received from the public specifically...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Functions (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department's business priorities are to continually improve services to customers in an agile manner to best meet the needs of our customers in a cost-effective and efficient manner and to support the delivery of Government policy. My Department, as an ongoing focus, uses business process review and improvement as well as technology to achieve efficiencies and to alleviate or...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department has a number of capital programmes designed to support community groups with capital funding towards the renovation and upgrade of community halls. The Community Centre Investment Fund (CCIF)has provided in excess of €109 million since 2022 for the enhancement and refurbishment of existing community centres and the construction of new centres. In April 2024,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: Given the type of work carried out by my Department the current potential for the use of AI with regard to our data is limited. The schemes and programmes operated by my Department do not involve large datasets or databases. Notwithstanding this, my Department places a strong emphasis on data management and is currently working on an information management project to bring greater consistency...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 443 and 444 together. Developed by my Department, Our Rural Future is the whole-of-government policy for rural Ireland for the period 2021-2025. As part of this policy, significant investment has been made to support remote working projects, in collaboration with local authorities and communities. Artificial intelligence has added value to this...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: Given the type of work carried out by my Department, while there may be a need to examine use of AI in the future, the current potential for its use would be very limited. As such, AI tools are not widely used in my Department and no policy areas are currently being examined for the future use of this technology. My Department follows the current advice from the National Cyber Security...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Artificial Intelligence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: Given the type of work carried out by my Department the current potential uses of AI would be very limited. As such, training has not been provided to staff. The majority of staff training takes place through the One Learning platform, and I am informed that this platform will offer training in this area in the near future.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Correspondence (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 447 and 448 together. My Department utilises a build to share e-correspondence system to manage all correspondence received by the Department. In general, physical letters are digitised so that the relevant unit within the Department can draft responses on the system. Where, for example, large reports are included, these may not be digitised. The system...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Surveys (10 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department’s mission is to promote rural and community development and to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. That mission is delivered on through a number of key strategic goals, set out in our Statement of Strategy, including one relating to the effective performance of the organisation and our staff. My Department continuously strives to...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: Táimid ar ais ag an agóid céanna idir bhord Stáit agus údarás. Tuigim an pointe a rinne an Teachta Ó Snodaigh go bhfuil coistí Oireachtais in ann dul go dtí seisiún príobháideach. Bhí an Teachta McGuinness ag lorg sampla d'aon áit ina bhfuil daoine tofa ann ach nach bhfuil ceamaraí ann. Bhí mé ag...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Dara Calleary: Tá sé tábhachtach go n-aithníonn an Teachta go bhfuil airgead breise tugtha agus leasuithe breise déanta maidir le cúrsaí pleanála teanga an údaráis nach raibh ann roimhe seo. Rinneadh infheistíocht sa phróiseas pleanála sin. Tá ról an údaráis difriúil ón ról a bhí aige. Tá suim...