Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can be provided with a payment from her Department while they are undertaking an unpaid placement as part of a course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27975/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned made a claim for Jobseekers Benefit on 4/8/2020 which was disallowed on 29/09/2020 as follows: 

To qualify for Jobseeker's a person must be available for full-time work.

The reason for this decision is that the person concerned is registered with Hibernian College, and is expected to complete an average of 37 hours study per week.  The  decision on the claim is that the person is not available for  full-time work while maintaining this level of online learning. A formal notification is being issued to the customer .

It  is open to the customer to appeal this decision.