Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 26 Nov 1991

Vol. 413 No. 5

Written Answers. - Part-time Job Incentive Scheme.

Tomás MacGiolla

Question:

120 Tómas Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will outline the increases there have been for each year of the existence of the part-time job incentive scheme for (a) single persons and (b) married persons with an adult dependant.

Tomás MacGiolla

Question:

121 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he has any plans to increase the allowance to (1) single persons and (2) those with an adult dependant under the part-time job incentive scheme.

Tomás MacGiolla

Question:

122 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will outline the number of people who have availed of the part-time job incentive scheme in each of the following years (1) 1988 (2) 1989 (3) 1990 who are (a) single persons (b) married with adult dependant (c) who are-were on long term rate of unemployment assistance and (d) who are on social employment schemes.

Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. Daly)

It is proposed to take Questions Nos. 120, 121 and 122 together. The weekly allowances payable in respect of the part time job incentive scheme since its inception in 1986 are set out in the following table:

Year	Single	Married with Adult Dependant
	£	£
1986	25	40
1987	25	40
1988	27	45
1989	30	50
1990	33	55
1991	35	58

The allowances were last increased in July 1991 and the question of any further increase would be a matter for consideration in the context of the budget.

Average monthly take-up of the scheme during the years 1988, 1989 and 1990 by persons who were formerly in receipt of unemployment assistance at the long term rate was as follows:

Year	Single	Married with Adult Dependant
1988	52	15
1989	152	51
1990	165	64

It is not possible to say how many of those who availed of the scheme are now on unemployment assistance or on a social employment scheme.