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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in local communities across the country. They support CE participants to get work experience and develop future work opportunities for those who are long term unemployed, while providing essential services to local communities. As the Deputy is aware, CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: The Deputy will be aware that a final settlement was reached with unions at the end of 2021 to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsoring organisations. The settlement resolves this long-standing issue through the payment of a once off ex-gratia payment to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Protection (13 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 646. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that his Department has made to help address the mental health needs of persons who have arrived in Ireland under the Temporary Protection Directive to date in 2022. [62267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the availability of lactation consultants and supports nationwide; if he will outline plans for expansion of lactation supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Legislative Reviews (13 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: The Charities Regulatory Authority (‘the Charities Regulator’) is the State organisation responsible for registering and regulating all of Ireland’s charities. While established on 16 October 2014, pursuant to the Charities Act 2009, the Charities Regulator was not fully operational until 2016. Draft proposals for amendments to the Charities Act 2009 were developed by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: The Deputy will be aware that a final settlement was reached with unions at the end of 2021 to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsoring organisations. The settlement resolves this long-standing issue through the payment of a once off ex-gratia payment to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in local communities across the country. They support CE participants to get work experience and develop future work opportunities for those who are long term unemployed, while providing essential services to local communities. As the Deputy is aware, CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Dublin Airport Authority have been issued with a warning letter by the planning department of Fingal County Council in relation to many issues being caused to residents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned extension to a school (details supplied) to provide capacity for 1,300 pupils and a four classroom SEN base; the indicative timeline for this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60630/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the recommendation from her Department to remove the school site objective on the phase 3 Golden Ridge site in Rush, County Dublin as part of its submission to the draft Fingal County Council Development Plan 2023-2027. [60634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 338, 344 and 383 together. I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in local communities across the country.  They support CE participants to get work experience and develop future work opportunities for those who are long term unemployed, while providing essential services to local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

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. CE sponsoring bodies receive state funding to cover the salary costs of supervisors, assistant supervisors, and participant remuneration,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: The Deputy will be aware that a final settlement was reached with unions at the end of 2021 to implement a 2008 Labour Court recommendation relating to the provision of a pension scheme for CE supervisors and CE assistant supervisors who are employed by CE scheme sponsoring organisations.  The settlement resolves this long-standing issue through the payment of a once off ex-gratia...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned establishment of a community neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: My colleague, Minister Humphreys, published the General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill on 29 April 2022.  This General Scheme was subsequently submitted to the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands for Pre-Legislative scrutiny. This Bill is to provide for a number of amendments to the Charities Act 2009. The aim of the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Joe O'Brien: Not-for-profit and voluntary organisations in the Community and Voluntary sector are woven into the fabric of community life across Ireland, but they are vulnerable to the impact of increased energy costs. The recent budget allocated €10m to my department to put in place a support scheme for community and voluntary organisations and charities in 2022. The Community and Voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in local communities across the country. They support CE participants to get work experience and develop future work opportunities for those who are long term unemployed, while providing essential services to local communities. As the Deputy is aware, CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 85 and 87 together. As Minister of State with responsibility for social inclusion, I have a strong interest in addressing all forms of poverty and addressing child poverty is a Government priority.The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 notes that no child in Ireland should live in poverty and that, where it happens due to adverse circumstances, available...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: Poverty proofing, or a poverty impact assessment, is the process by which policies and programmes are assessed at design, implementation and review stages, with a view to poverty reduction. The Government decided in 2012 to incorporate poverty impact assessments into an integrated social impact assessment in order to support the implementation of the national social target for poverty...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joe O'Brien: I value the role CE supervisors and assistant supervisors play on over 800 CE schemes in providing work experience and development opportunities to long term unemployed and essential services to local communities. As the Deputy is aware, CE supervisors and assistant supervisors are not employees of the Department and are not public servants. They are employees of individual schemes. ...