Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34425/09]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I am advised that a redundancy payment claim for the individual named was submitted to the Redundancy Payments Section of my Department in early September 2009 and is currently awaiting processing.

The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department is in receipt of an unprecedented level of claims for redundancy payment that are giving rise to very significant delays in the processing of those payments for both companies and individuals. Currently, the average time it takes to process rebate applications from employers filed online is 7 months while claims submitted by post are taking 8 months. In respect of lumpsum payments paid directly to employees in instances where the employers are unable to pay the statutory redundancy entitlements, the current processing time, assuming all of the necessary supporting documentation is filed, is between 6 — 8 weeks.

Naturally, the Tánaiste and I share concerns about current processing times which individuals and employers continue to experience and further initiatives, including that of additional resourcing measures, have been implemented in order to improve the turnaround in the processing of redundancy payments.