asked the Minister for Labour the numbers of workers, male and female, who have been declared redundant in (a) industry and (b) services for each of the three years ended 31 December 1985; the total payments made to employers by rebate from the redundancy fund; the number of workers, male and female, who were forced to claim payment direct from the fund by RP 14 due to employers claiming inability to pay; and the amount of money recouped from the same employers for the same period and the percentage of the total paid.
Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers - Redundancy Statistics.
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The numbers of proposed redundancies of workers notified to my Department under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1979 in each of the three years ended 31 December 1985 were as follows:
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Industry |
Services |
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|
Year |
Male |
Female |
Total |
Male |
Female |
Total |
|
1983 |
11,279 |
3,085 |
15,084 |
11,244 |
3,587 |
14,831 |
|
1984 |
11,925 |
4,301 |
16,226 |
10,292 |
4,772 |
15,064 |
|
1985 |
8,126 |
3,787 |
11,913 |
7,589 |
3,029 |
10,618 |
The total rebates paid to employers from the Redundancy and Employers' Insolvency Fund were:
1983 — £14,044,610; 1984 — £19,202,843; and 1985 — £16,859,032.
Statistics of redundancy lump sum payments paid directly to employees from the fund are not broken down as between males and females. The total numbers of workers who were paid redundancy lump sums directly from the fund were 3,858 in 1983, 5,251 in 1984 and 5,962 in 1985.
The amounts of money recouped from employers in each of the three years in respect of redundancy lump sum payments to workers from the fund were as follows: £240,924 in 1983, £497,322 in 1984 and £440,940 in 1985. There represent the equivalents of 6.6 per cent, 8.8 per cent and 6.7 per cent respectively of the total amounts of lump sum payments from the fund in the three years in question. These figures cannot, however, be related directly to amounts of lump sums paid to workers from the fund in the same years as amounts recouped in particular years relate mainly to lump sums paid in previous years.
We will now move on to the priority questions.
Could I have Question No. 24 withdrawn? It was the most important question on the agenda today and it was not reached.
I did my best. Does the Deputy want a written answer or does he want it put back into the lottery?
I will put it back in again.