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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: No. That will be taken out when the Estimates are being prepared. It could be the case that some of the people concerned have gone back to work. For instance, it was the pattern that many JobBridge interns were offered jobs after three months in the internship. They then leave the live register completely. In some cases, once people are given a start, a percentage of them will find some...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Assuming all places are taken up.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Those involved in the JobsPlus scheme do not retain their social welfare payments.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: The scheme will be formally launched next Monday in Waterford. The key points are that if an employer takes on a person who has been unemployed for more than one year, he or she receives a cash payment of €7,500 over a two year period on a monthly basis; in the case of a person on the live register who has been unemployed for two years or more, the employer will receive a cash payment...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: With the Arts Council and the county arts officers, the Department launched a scheme to offer high quality internships working with arts officers to provide expertise for festivals, for example. Cork County Council has been fantastic in taking advantage of the scheme. The same applies to Clare County Council which always takes advantage of any opportunity offered and is prepared to give...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I assure the Deputy that politicians who canvassed recently in County Meath will know that this is a very big issue. During the boom many involved in the construction and other industries who traditionally worked as employees found themselves working as contractors and subcontractors. In many cases, they did not want to be self-employed contractors, but this was necessary in order to take...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I can tell the Deputy what we are spending and will get the number of participants for him. This year we expect to spend €10.85 million. That is an increase of approximately €284,000 on last year. The overall expenditure on the supported employment service has gone up again from €8.104 million to what we anticipate spending this year, a further €8.8 million,...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I said I hope ultimately that will be the case.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: It is their total social welfare payment and the additional payment.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: When a person moves to Jobstart, he or she would continue to receive benefit payments for a period and therefore the total payment would be the standard payment plus an additional €20. As we increase the numbers, the additional cost represents the extra cost plus the extra administration cost and so on. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is providing...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: There is a minimum number of review targets for 2013. More savings are expected because we have better analytical tools. I gave an example of the man with the three photos. That is really helpful. If the inspectors talk to that individual, we get much more information because they ask why they are being picked on when other people are doing it. There is often a substantially increased...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: There are obviously people with a disability who are in work but who do not make any claim on the Department of Social Welfare because they have an income from their employment and so do not require support from social welfare. I do not have those particular figures. That would be a matter for CSO, but I will ask the staff to obtain those figures for the Deputy. There is a proportion of...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Approximately 3,000 staff have now been deployed to do the ordinary, day-to-day work. This figure includes the additional 1,700 staff to whom I referred. As Deputy Willie O'Dea may be aware from conversations with people in Limerick, we have decided to integrate the FÁS service in order that it is no longer a stand-alone service run by former FÁS personnel. Similarly, the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: In regard to Deputy Brendan Ryan's question about the unemployed bricklayer, approximately 100,000 unemployed persons were formerly involved in construction related activity. The unemployment statistics indicate these individuals are mostly men who worked hard in construction jobs and made good money when times were good. It is a major challenge to find them satisfying and interesting work...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I suggest he discuss with his local office the possibility of transferring to a Tús or community employment scheme. We now have 7,000 people on Tús schemes. To qualify for a placement on a scheme, one must have been unemployed for one year. I have had the pleasure of meeting a range of people on Tús schemes and the local development networks have been very helpful in getting...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: What did he work at?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: How long, roughly, has he been without work?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I will take Deputy Butler's question first and then move on to the others. We took roughly 1,000 staff who had formerly worked in the HSE, either as community welfare officers or as staff assisting community welfare officers. When that happened we took over approximately 700 locations from which they provided community welfare services, often for one or two hours a week in 700 different...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I refer to the average time taken to process a jobseeker's allowance. The target is 90% within six weeks. In 2012, 76% was achieved. In 2013, we are on 82%. One of the significant reasons for the improvement is the new system in the Intreo offices which is being rolled out. I do not know if the Deputy has had an opportunity to visit an Intreo office yet. I extended an invitation to the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: For the better, I hope.