Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 15 Jun 1999

Vol. 506 No. 2

Written Answers. - Summer Jobs Scheme.

Michael Ring

Ceist:

323 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs if he will give a full and detailed breakdown of the assessment of the application for the student summer scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14935/99]

Michael Ring

Ceist:

324 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs if he will give a full and detailed breakdown of the assessment of the application for the student summer scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14937/99]

Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs: (Mr. D. Ahern)

It is proposed to take Questions Nos. 323 and 324 together.

To qualify for participation in the students' summer jobs scheme, students must satisfy a means test which is broadly similar to that cur rently applying to applicants for unemployment assistance. The persons concerned, who are sisters, do not qualify as their weekly means, assessed at £71.40 are in excess of qualifying limit of £65.

The total gross parental weekly income is £639.22 derived from the father's income as a local authority official and the mother's income from part time employment. When allowances are made in respect of tax, PRSI, superannuation, voluntary health insurance, union fees and travel, the net weekly assessable income is calculated at £420.05. For unemployment assistance purposes the weekly benefit derived by an applicant from board and lodgings provided in the family home is assessed at 17 per cent of the net family weekly income. On this basis the weekly means of the persons concerned is calculated at £71.40 which is excess of the qualifying limit.