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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS

General

• Employment Support for People with a Disability
• Wage Subsidy Scheme
• Ways people with disabilities are supported in employment
• Additional supports to job facilitators
• Reason persons on disability benefit are not eligible for the labour market activation scheme

Supported Employment Schemes

• Supported Employment Schemes
• Community Employment Scheme
• Community Employment Scheme
• New action plan for the national supported employment programme
• Programmes to ensure equal access to employment for people with disabilities
• Community employment participants
• Community employment schemes
• EU directive which allows public tenders to be exempt from the normal process when the majority of employees have disabilities
• Community Employment Schemes
• Work Placement Programme
• Community Employment Schemes
• Changes to Community Employment Scheme
• Adjournment Debate: Community Employment Scheme
• Breakdown of CE workers by social welfare payment
• Community Employment Schemes
• Adjournment Debate: Community Employment Schemes
• CE participants refused extension
• Community Employment Schemes
• Community Employment Scheme and Disability Allowance
• Spouses and community employment scheme
• Priority Questions: Spouses of those on DA not eligible for CE Schemes
• Springboard programme and  people on Disability Allowance
• Criteria for Springboard Scheme

FÁS

• FÁS Initiatives for People with a Disability
• Training bonus paid to FÁS trainees
• Remaining on FÁS Training Programmes for Unlimited Periods
• FÁS Schemes for people with disabilities
• Numbers who participated in FÁS supported employment schemes
• Number of persons with disabilities employed in FÁS job initiative schemes in last five years
• Work programme of the FÁS national advisory group on disability

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GOVERNMENT POLICY

General

• HSE Working Group on Developing Employment Skills
• Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities
• Time people with disabilities can work
• Problems accessing employment
• Job protection schemes
• Employment strategy for people with disabilities
• Action Plan Against Social Inclusion and employment of people with disabilities
• Research Report on Acquired Disability and Employment
• Changes introduced following the publication of the review of wage subsidy scheme
• Employment Strategy
• Employment Strategy
• Employment Strategy for people with Disabilities
• Work experience scheme for people with disabilities
• Employment Strategy for people with disabilities

Public Service Employment

• Employment of People with Disabilities in Public Service
• Leader’s Questions: Disability and employment in the public service
• Disabled Employees at Office of Public Works
• Review of the Code of Practice for Employment of People with Disabilities in Local Authorities
• Targets for employment of people with a disability
• Department of Finance and 3% employment target
• Department of Health and Children and 3% employment target
• Department of Transport and 3% employment target
• Department of Justice and 3% employment target
• Department of Foreign Affairs and 3% employment target
• Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and 3% employment target
• Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and 3% employment target
• Department of Social and Family Affairs and 3% employment target
• Department of Defence and 3% employment target
• Department of Environment and 3% employment target
• Department of Communications and 3% employment target
• Department of Agriculture and 3% employment target
• Department of Education and 3% employment target
• Department of Taoiseach and 3% employment target
• Employment opportunities for persons with disabilities within the public sector
• Vacancies under 3% employment target
• Local authority employers and 3% of staff employed are persons with a disability

Incentives for businesses

• Employment incentives for businesses to employ people with disabilities

National Disability Strategy

• Information Gathering Requirements of Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment under Disability Act Sectoral Plan
• Department of Enterprise Spending on National Disability Strategy
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Enterprise

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TRAINING

General

• Training Programmes to Boost Employment
• Employment Programmes for people with a disability
• Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
• Training for people with disabilities

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SHELTERED WORKSHOPS

General

• Review of Sheltered Workshops
• Sheltered Workshops and Training

Employment Rights

• Employment rights for people in sheltered employment
• Person with a disability doing ‘rehabilitative work’ and minimum wage
• Exempt public service pay reductions for people with a disability

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