Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a wage subsidy scheme application by a person (details suppled) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47501/18]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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The wage subsidy scheme (WSS) is an employment support to private sector employers. The scheme provides financial incentives to private sector employers to hire people with a disability for between 21 and 39 hours per week under a contract of employment.

The objective of the wage subsidy scheme (WSS) is to increase the likelihood of people with disabilities participating in the open labour market by making available a subsidy to private sector employers. The scheme operates by allowing employers to claim a subsidy, subject to certain conditions, against the cost of a ‘shortfall’ in productivity which may arise where a jobseeker (who has a disability) is employed.

My Department is considering the details of the application and will reply directly to the Deputy as a matter of urgency.