Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 March 2004
210 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that supervisors of the LTI received no increase in wages, either through cost of living, national pay agreement or benchmarking while other FÁS supervisors and participants did; if she will allocate extra funding to FÁS to address this injustice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7919/04]
View answerFÁS provides a grant to local training initiative (LTI) sponsors towards the cost of employing supervisors. The last increase in grants for local training initiative supervisor costs was applied from 1 October 2002. This increase was the final tranche of the pay agreement under the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness.
The level of grants payable to LTI sponsors to assist them meet the costs of supervisors is currently being reviewed by FÁS in the context of the pay agreement under Sustaining Progress.
Payments to LTI participants are not linked to Sustaining Progress but are adjusted in line with social welfare increases. The recent social welfare increases have been applied with effect from 1 January 2004.
