Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 472: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a back to work enterprise allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [31490/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned submitted a work proposal and an application for a short term enterprise allowance to his local partnership company on the 28 June 2010. It is a matter for the local partnership company to decide on the application and this decision has not yet been communicated to his Social Welfare Local Office.

If his partnership company approves his work project, he may qualify for a short term enterprise allowance at the same rate as his jobseeker's benefit, from 28 June 2010 to 5 July 2010, which is the date on which his entitlement to benefit exhausted.

It is open to him to apply for jobseeker's allowance and a form for this purpose was issued to him on 11 June 2010. However, it has not been returned. It is possible he may qualify for back to work enterprise allowance for up to 2 years, subject to him applying and qualifying for jobseeker's allowance.