Written answers
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Department of Social Protection
Rural Social Scheme Application Numbers
Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of recipients of the rural social ccheme granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015; the average waiting time for decisions on appeals; the number of appeals referred for independent oral appeal; and the percentage of these approved and refused. [14495/15]
Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The rural social scheme (RSS) provides income support for low income farmers and those engaged in fishing who have an entitlement to specified social welfare payments. Participants are engaged for 19½ hours per week to provide certain services of benefit to rural communities. The Department has engaged 35 local development companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta, known as implementing bodies, to deliver the scheme.
The scheme currently provides work opportunities for 2,600 participants and 130 supervisory staff. Those interested in participating apply directly to their local implementing body which have overall responsibility for recruiting participants and supervisors, in line with the terms and conditions of the scheme. The Department has no role in the recruitment process.
The table below outlines the allocation of participants and supervisors to each implementing body.
Implementing Body | Participant Quota | Supervisors Quota |
---|---|---|
Avondhu/Blackwater Partnership Ltd. | 17 | 1 |
Ballyhoura Development Limited | 47 | 2 |
Breffni Integrated Ltd. | 80 | 4 |
Carlow County Development Partnership Ltd. | 18 | 1 |
Cill Dara ar Aghaidh Teoranta | 22 | 1 |
Clare Local Development Co. ltd. | 117 | 6 |
Comhar na nOilean Teoranta | 20 | 0 |
County Kilkenny LEADER Part. Co. Ltd. | 19 | 1 |
County Sligo LEADER Partnership Co. Ltd. | 124 | 6 |
County Wicklow Partnership | 20 | 1 |
Donegal Local Development Co. Ltd. | 76 | 4 |
Forum Connemara Ltd. | 14 | 1 |
Galway Rural Development Co. Ltd. | 156 | 8 |
Inishowen Development Partnership | 30 | 2 |
IRD Duhallow Ltd. | 58 | 3 |
Laois Community & Enerprise Dev. Co. Ltd. | 25 | 1 |
Leitrim Integrated Development Co. Ltd. | 100 | 5 |
Longford Community Resources | 55 | 3 |
Louth LEADER Partnership | 10 | 0 |
Meath Community Rural & Social Dev. Part. | 16 | 1 |
Monaghan Integrated Development | 40 | 2 |
North & East Kerry LEADER Part. Teo. | 89 | 5 |
Mayo North East LEADER Part. Co. Teo. | 221 | 11 |
North Tipperary LEADER Partnership | 37 | 2 |
Offaly Integrated Local Dev. Co. Ltd. | 52 | 3 |
Roscommon Integrated Dev. Co. Ltd. | 149 | 7 |
South & East Cork Area Dev. | 8 | 1 |
South Kerry Development Partnership Ltd. | 138 | 7 |
South Tipperary Development Co. Ltd. | 26 | 1 |
South West Mayo Dev. Co. Ltd. | 191 | 10 |
Údarás na Gaeltachta | 437 | 21 |
Waterford LEADER Partnership Ltd. | 12 | 0 |
West Cork Development Partnership Ltd. | 68 | 3 |
West Limerick Resources | 36 | 2 |
Westmeath Community Dev. Ltd. | 33 | 2 |
Wexford Local Development | 39 | 2 |
Total number of Participants | 2600 | 130 |
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