Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of money paid out of the Social Insurance Fund in 2007, 2008 and 2009, for redundancy lump sums to people who lost their jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6516/09]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Payment of statutory redundancy is, in the first instance, a matter for the employer. An employer who makes a statutory redundancy payment to an employee is entitled to apply for a rebate of 60% of the total cost from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF). Employees are only paid statutory redundancy lump sums from the Social Insurance Fund where the employer is not, due to insolvency, receivership, or examinership in a position to make the payment directly to them.

Set out as follows are the amount of monies paid out of the Social Insurance Fund in respect of redundancy lump sum claims paid directly to employees in the years 2007, 2008 and up to 13th Feb 2009. It should be noted that the figures provided for 2008 and to date in 2009 are provisional figures.