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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (25 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's Community Services Programme (CSP) supports 420 community-based organisations, supporting 437 services to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution towards each full-time equivalent (FTE) position being supported, and, where warranted, towards the cost of employing a manager. Qualifying organisations must be social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I agree with the Deputy that Community Employment (CE) has a proven track record of helping people who are long-term unemployed and lone parents to get back to work and has many benefits for these individuals and our communities. It is an active labour market programme designed to assist eligible people including lone parents by offering work experience and training through short-term...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: As part of Budget 2024, Minister Humphreys and I secured a €2.3 Billion Social Protection package. I am pleased to say that this is, for the second year in a row, the largest in the history of the State. This package provides a mixture of exceptional cost of living payments delivered quickly, over the coming weeks, along with rate increases effective from January. Each year, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Levels (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020–2025is the national strategy for poverty reduction and social inclusion. The ambitious headline target is to reduce the percentage of the population in consistent poverty to 2% or less by 2025. The Roadmap also includes other indicators to support on delivery of this ambition. Official poverty data is published annually by the Central Statistics...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Department of Social Protection operates a number of employment support schemes for long term unemployed persons which also assist communities across the country in the provision of vital services, including Community Employment (CE), Tús and the Rural Social Scheme (RSS). The Department is very conscious of the important role that these work programmes play and wish to support...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Government Reform (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Since the establishment of the Department of Rural and Community Development on the 19th July 2017, no functions have been devolved in full or in part, nor are any functions in the process of being devolved.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (18 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's Community Services Programme (CSP) supports over 420 community-based organisations, to provide local services through a social enterprise model. CSP provides an annual co-funding contribution towards each full-time equivalent (FTE) position being supported, and, where warranted, towards the cost of employing a manager. A call for applications for additional staff support...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department is responsible for the Seniors Alert Scheme which encourages community support for vulnerable older people in our communities through the provision of personal monitored alarms to enable them to live securely in their homes with confidence, independence and peace of mind. Funding is available under the Scheme towards the purchase, by a registered community-based organisation, of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (12 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of any regulation or policy that governs the provision of ATMs in public places that are not physically connected to a commercial bank; and if there is any obligation or regulation on the providers of such ATMs to ensure these ATMs are not removed, thus potentially leaving a community without access to cash. [44554/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (10 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Charities Regulatory Authority (the ‘Charities Regulator’) was established in October 2014 pursuant to the Charities Act 2009. The Authority is the State organisation responsible for registering and regulating all of Ireland’s charities, with the mandate to promote good governance practice. The Charities Regulator also engages in the provision of services to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (4 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department’s mission is to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. In delivering on its mission, my Department provides a wide range of strategic interventions, funding programmes and policies that ensure rural and urban communities continue to thrive. This includes community and voluntary organisations that provide vital services to our...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's mission is to promote rural and community development and to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. The underlying basis for all funding delivered through my Department's community development programmes is to enable communities themselves to identify and address their needs in this context. The Social Inclusion and Community...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department's mission is to promote rural and community development and to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), overseen by my Department, is our country’s primary social inclusion programme which aims to reduce poverty and promote social inclusion and equality by supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Clár Forbartha Áitiúil (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Tacaíonn Clár um Sheirbhísí don Phobal (CSP) mo Roinne le breis agus 420 eagraíocht phobalbhunaithe, chun seirbhísí áitiúla a sholáthar trí mhúnla fiontair shóisialta. Soláthraíonn CSP ranníocaíocht chómhaoinithe bhliantúil i dtreo gach post coibhéis lánaimseartha (CL) a fhaigheann...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Clár Forbartha Áitiúil (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: Tacaíonn Clár um Sheirbhísí don Phobal (CSP) mo Roinne le breis agus 420 eagraíocht phobalbhunaithe, chun seirbhísí áitiúla a sholáthar trí mhúnla fiontair shóisialta. Soláthraíonn CSP ranníocaíocht chómhaoinithe bhliantúil i dtreo gach post coibhéis lánaimseartha (CL) a fhaigheann...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department continues to liaise with stakeholders in communities around the country including the Local Authorities, Local Community Development Committees, Public Participation Networks and Local Development Companies to ensure that supports provided are timely and appropriate to the needs of those communities. While the schemes administered by my Department have a consistent, ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: My Department continues to liaise with stakeholders in communities around the country including the Local Authorities, Local Community Development Committees, Public Participation Networks and Local Development Companies to ensure that supports provided are timely and appropriate to the needs of those communities. While the schemes administered by my Department have a consistent, ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: In August 2019, the Department of Rural and Community Development launched Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities: a five-year strategy to support the community and voluntary sector in Ireland. The Strategy sets a general direction of travel for government policy in relation to community development, local development and the community and voluntary sectors for the coming decade....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Government's five-year strategy to support the community and voluntary sector, Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities, was published in 2019. This is a whole of government strategy led by my Department, which is implemented collaboratively with the sector through the Cross Sector Group on Local and Community Development. This Strategy plays an important role in seeking to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) is the official source of poverty statistics for Ireland. The most recent survey results in relation to the 2022 survey were published by the CSO on 22 February 2023. Due to the sample sizes involved, poverty data is only available at regional level. However, child poverty data at regional level is not...