Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rate of take up of supports available through FÁS or other Government agencies to support the training and re-skilling needs of the 70 former employees of a company (details supplied) who were made redundant. [28671/13]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps taken to promote supports available through FÁS or other Government agencies to support the training and re-skilling needs of the 70 former employees of a company (details supplied) who were made redundant. [28672/13]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of former employees of a company (details supplied) who were recently made redundant who have been assisted back into employment by FÁS or any other Government support. [28673/13]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail additional measures identified by her Department to support the former workers of a company (details supplied) to regain employment. [28674/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 195 to 198, inclusive, together.

The employees of Curragh Carpets were made redundant in November 2012. Most of the staff had been on systematic short-time working prior to that. The Department did not receive a full list of staff to be made redundant from the company. A list of 51 former employees has been compiled using data supplied by the company to the redundancy and insolvency section and the Department’s own data.

The following table gives a summary of the position in relation to the 51 former employees identified.

The following table gives a summary of the outcomes for the 39 former employees who were referred to the Department’s employment services under the National Employment Action Plan or who attended of their own accord.

The Department’s employment services staff provide information and guidance on CV preparation, interview techniques and job vacancies notified to the Department and to the JobsIreland web based services and the National Contact Centre. They also provide information on training programmes, jobs clubs (where available), JobBridge Internships as well as one-to-one guidance to develop individual action plans where requested, along with on-going support.

A number of additional supports are available for people who are long-term unemployed as follows:

The back to education allowance (third level option) is available to jobseekers who are over 9 months on the live register.

The back to work enterprise allowance is available for people who are over 12 months on the live register.

Places on community employment schemes are available to those over 12 months on the live register.

The momentum programme. Momentum provides jobseekers who are over 12 months on the live register with access to a range of quality education and training projects, links to identified job vacancies, employers work placement opportunities and relevant industry and National Framework of Qualifications certification.

The Department has developed a jobseeker information pack which will be issued to people when they register for jobseeker’s payments and when they attend interviews or group sessions with employment services. The pack will give practical advice on CVs, job letters and interviews and will also give details of the allowances, schemes, grants and other supports that are available to help people in their search for employment.