Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of redundancy rebates made each year over the past five years; the total sum in rebates provided each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4351/13]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of occasions on which the Government has been forced to pay the full statutory redundancy payment to employees of insolvent companies over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4352/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 450 and 451 together.

During the period 2008 to 2012 inclusive expenditure on the redundancy payments scheme was €1.6 billion. This includes rebates to employers who paid statutory redundancy and lump sum payments directly to employees whose employer was insolvent and could not make the statutory redundancy payments. A breakdown of these payments for each of the years in question is set out in Table A.

Table A: Expenditure on the Redundancy Payments Scheme 2008-2012

It is not possible to provide a breakdown of the number of rebate and lump sum claims processed over the period 2008 to 2012 inclusive. Table B sets out the total number of redundancy claims processed over the period.

Table B: Redundancy Claims Processed, 2008-2012

*All 2012 figures are provisional.

** A new redundancy processing system was introduced in October 2011. It is not possible in the time available to provide details of the number of claims processed in 2011 prior to the introduction of the new system. This information will be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible.