Sustaining businesses as while we work through the COVID-19 crisis is crucial. In all cases the best advice will involve speaking directly to your funders, reviewing your cost base and checking with your insurers for business interruption cover. Additonally there are several supports available: COVID-19 Information for Employers: Includes the COVID-19 Employer Refund Scheme &…
Category: Employment
Income & Rent Support
Details of new schemes to financially assist people whose income is negatively impacted by COVID-19 have been announced. Income support This a COVID-19 Pandemic Payment for those employees who’s employers cannot pay anything AND is also open to Self Employed. For instructions on how to complete the form, click HERE. Rent support Any Dublin City…
Welfare Info
The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) has issued information on coronavirus for employers and employees. It includes information about expected changes to the Illness Benefit and Supplementary Welfare Allowance rules, to help prevent transmission. You can download the leaflet HERE. If you are diagnosed with COVID-19, or are medically required to self-isolate,…
Apprentices
An apprenticeship is an ideal way to start your career and there a plenty of opportunities available. For full details click HERE but the highlights include the following great opportunities: ESB Applications for the 2020 ESB Apprenticeship programme are now open on the ESB website and will close on Friday 13th March 2020. Bus Éireann…
#STOP67
Mary recognises that reform of the State Pension is an important issue. Under Manifesto 2020, Fianna Fáil intends to address concerns raised under #STOP67 as follows: Reinstate the State Pension (Transition) which will be paid to people aged 65 & over who retire but are not yet entitled to a State Pension Establish a Commission…
Local Researchers Wanted
Dublin’s North East Inner City’s (NEIC) Initiative has been tasked with oversight of the long-term social and economic regeneration of the area. The NEIC Programme Office is in the process of producing an Action Plan for Liberty Park and surrounding areas. One of the main tasks in this process will involve consultations with local residents…
Inner City Enterprise
Mary was delighted to represent the Lord Mayor of Dublin at the Inner City Enterprise (ICE) lunch to celebrate successful entrepreneurs in our community. Inner City Enterprise (ICE) is a not-for-profit charity established to advise and assist unemployed people in Dublin’s inner city to set up their own businesses or create their own self-employment. ICE provides…
Government must defend our tax autonomy
Having worked for years with large multi-nationals Mary understands the commercial importance of Ireland’s corporate tax rate for multi-nationals deciding where to invest and create jobs. Mary is extremely critical of the Governments failure to vigorously contest the European Commissions “state aid” ruling in relation to Apple which puts our autonomy over our corporation tax,…
Work in Brussels
The European Direct Contact Centre are hiring in Brussels. They are looking for a Junior Communication Officer with Irish language skills to join their team. This is an interesting opportunity for anyone interested in the EU, with a degree in European Studies or Politics who speaks English and Irish. The job offers a permanent contract, multinational work…
Garda Recruitment
The new Garda Recruitment Campaign is especially welcome in Dublin Central where we lost more than 150 Gardaí in the last few years. The aim is to fill 800 vacancies and we in Fianna Fáil are working to ensure that Dublin Central gets its’ fair share of the new recruits. Details of how to…