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The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, today (Monday, 2nd December 2013) presented certificates...

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton today presented certificates to graduates of the Advantage Programme in Retail Skills and Warehousing Skills...

JobsPlus, the Government’s new wage subsidy scheme for employers, has helped create over 1,000 new full-time jobs since its launch in July...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, today (24 November, 2012) reassured jobseekers who avail of temporary work over the...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, and the Crafts Council of Ireland have today announced an extension of the JobBridge national internship scheme to allow...

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton today welcomed the continuing reduction in the Live Register, which has fallen beneath 400,000 for the first time in over four years...

Ireland is thankfully emerging from the catastrophic fiscal crisis that we inherited upon taking office in 2011. We are about to exit the bailout programme and stand on our...

This Budget continues the process of repairing the public finances while protecting the welfare safety net and providing a pathway back to work for jobseekers...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, has today (Wednesday 2 October 2013) welcomed the latest data from the Central Statistics Office which shows an...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, today (25th September 2013) attended the National Ploughing Championship and visited the...