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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (31 Mar 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REPS 4 payment for a person (details supplied) in Count Mayo will be awarded. [12787/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (31 Mar 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 400: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REPS 4 payment for a person (details supplied) will be awarded. [12788/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (31 Mar 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 401: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when details of the proposed hardship scheme for sheep farmers will be announced. [12789/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (31 Mar 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REPS 4 payment for a person (details supplied) will be awarded. [13212/09]

Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (8 Apr 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the health repayment scheme will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14842/09]

Written Answers — Health Repayment Scheme: Health Repayment Scheme (8 Apr 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the health repayment scheme will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14843/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Apr 2009)

Dara Calleary: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16039/09]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: Under the Redundancy Payment Scheme, Employers who give proper notice of redundancy (at least two weeks) to employees, and pay the statutory redundancy entitlement to those employees, are entitled to receive a 60% rebate from the Social Insurance Fund into which employers make regular payments through P.R.S.I. contributions. The attached table sets out the monetary value of Rebate and Lump...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (25 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I can confirm that between March and May of this year, my Department has received 1,623 applications under the Insolvency Payments Scheme for Arrears of Wages, Holiday Pay and Minimum Notice on behalf of the former employees of Waterford Crystal. These claims are currently being processed. It has however been necessary to seek further information from the Receiver and a response is...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Employment Permits Section informs me that an application in respect of the above named was received on 3 June 2009. The section is currently processing applications received in the second week of April 2009 and therefore a decision will not issue on this application for another six-eight weeks.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: My Department and FÁS have been working together over the last number of months to put in place measures to assist up to 3,600 apprentices who have been made redundant due to the current downturn. A number of initiatives to assist such apprentices have been put in place to date: The Department of Social and Family Affairs immediately on registration refer redundant apprentices to FÁS for...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the correspondence dated 5 June 2009 from the individual in question has been responded to.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: The National Employment Action Plan Preventive Strategy (NEAP) involves a systematic referral of certain cohorts of registered unemployed persons by the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) to FÁS for assistance. Department of Social and Family Affairs National Employment Action Plan (NEAP) referrals to FÁS Employment Services, Cork, in the second quarter of 2009 totalled,...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: In a reply given in regard to the company in question on 16 June last, I outlined the criteria in relation to the right of employees to receive redundancy entitlement under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 — 2007. This provides that employees who have two years continuous service with an employer, are aged 16 years or over and are in employment which is insurable for all benefits under...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: In order to respond effectively to the growing numbers of unemployed through the provision of work placements I, in conjunction with my colleague the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin jointly launched the work placement programme on 27 May last. The proposal by the City and County Managers Association and other similar proposals were considered as part of the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: FÁS is aware of a number of sitting Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas being on the sponsoring committees of community employment projects. The Community Employment Operating Guidelines state that the work programme of a sponsor should not involve any specific promotional-advocacy of a specific political party or the policies of a specific political party. Sponsors applying for a...

Written Answers — Insolvency Payments Scheme: Insolvency Payments Scheme (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I can confirm that between March and May of this year, my Department has received 1,623 applications under the Insolvency Payments Scheme for Arrears of Wages, Holiday Pay and Minimum Notice on behalf of the former employees of Waterford Crystal. These claims are currently being processed. It has however been necessary to seek further information from the Receiver and a response is...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (30 Jun 2009)

Dara Calleary: I have no plans to amend the rules governing the entry requirements to the work placement programme at this time. The objective of the work placement programme is to provide work experience for unemployed persons, including graduates, to improve their skills and to help them into employment as soon as possible. Specifically focusing on persons who have been on the live register for a period...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: The Graduate Scheme enables non-EEA students who complete their degree in Ireland to obtain a 6-month extension to their student residence permission from the Garda National Immigration Bureau in order that they may have time to seek full-time employment post-graduation. Where such a student obtains a job offer, they may apply to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for either a...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (1 Jul 2009)

Dara Calleary: 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 fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...