Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 2 November 2011
167 Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 291, 295, 296 and 297 of 27 September 2011, when she expects to be in a position to answer these questions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31917/11]
View answerAs the Department does not record nor compile information / statistics in the format sought by the Deputy in relation to all of the specific questions submitted, it has not been possible to provide a response in each case.
However, I can inform the Deputy that, in 2010, a total of €373 million was paid in rebates to employers who paid their employees lump sum payments. A further €96.7 million was paid out in lump sum redundancy payments where employers failed to make such payments.
Statistics on the numbers of redundancies notified for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011 are set out in the tables 1 and 2.
|
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011* |
|
40,607 |
77,001 |
58,731 |
33,678 |
*provisional (from January, 2011 to September, 2011)
|
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
April |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
|
4,846 |
3,089 |
5,349 |
3,725 |
4,102 |
3,669 |
4,703 |
3,829 |
3,367 |
168 Deputy Dan Neville asked the Minister for Social Protection the assistance available to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31918/11]
View answerIn the light of the information supplied, the person concerned would not be entitled to a statutory redundancy payment. The individual does not appear to have at least two years continuous service with the company in question, as required under the Redundancy Payments Acts. It is up to the employer concerned in the first instance to determine whether or not there is in fact a redundancy situation.
