Written answers
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Department of Social Protection
Job Initiative
5:00 pm
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 94: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she proposes to deal with the anomaly where a person who leaves a FÃS course to take up a JobBridge internship loses their free child care entitlement. [38157/11]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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In order for an individual to be eligible to participate in JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme an individual must be:
- currently in receipt of a live claim (Jobseeker's Allowance/Jobseeker's Benefit/Signing for Credits) on the Live Register;
- and have been in receipt of Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance or signing for Social Insurance Contribution Credits for a total of 78 days or more in the last 6 months.
An intern participating in JobBridge will continue to receive the social welfare entitlements, including secondary entitlements such as fuel allowance, that they had been receiving immediately prior to commencing the scheme.
The Child care Employment and Training Support Scheme (CETS) supports the child care needs of participants in training and educational courses operated by FÃS and Vocational Educational Committees (VECs). Participants on the JobBridge internship scheme are not trainees and therefore do not qualify under the criteria laid down for CETS. However, participants on JobBridge retain their existing social welfare entitlements and also receive a top up bonus of â¬50 per week for the duration of their internship.
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