Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41792/09]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees as in this case, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I can confirm that two rebate applications were received from the employer in question in March of this year. My Department raised some queries on the applications requiring the input of the employees and a delay was experienced as the employees had left the country making it difficult to obtain the necessary information. I understand that following receipt of the required information very recently, the rebate claims in question are being processed and payment is expected to issue in respect of these claims within the next one to two weeks.