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First Steps in Ireland
It is important that you understand your rights in Ireland and also the cultural differences between Ireland and your own country. Also some of our laws will be different to your own country, so please be careful that you are not breaking our laws unwittingly.
Ireland is a fantastic place to work with a society that rewards hard work, but please do the following in order to make your stay in Ireland a happy one.
Do bring enough money, make sure you have enough money for your first month in Ireland to cover Accommodation, food, travel costs etc.
Do research Irelands culture, laws, tax system and the job market.
Do try to find a job before you arrive, or at least arrange interviews with employers, to make sure you get a job in the quickest possible time.
Do arrange accommodation before you arrive.
Do get a PPS number and tax credits as quickly as possible.
Do talk to friends to give you an understanding of what working in Ireland is like.
Do have a mobile phone so you can be contacted by employers.
Do ensure that an employer knows that you are taking a job for a short period if that is the case.
Don’t lie on your c.v. or in interviews about your experience or qualifications, you will be found out and lose your job.
Don’t drink alcohol while at work, you could lose your job or cause an accident.
Useful information resources
Day One
Arriving to the Airport
After going through passport control and collecting your luggage, you will flow out with other passengers into the main arriving hall.
We are strongly recommending bringing your mobile phone from home. Please ask your mobile operator at home to unblock it that you can use it in Ireland. To buy an Irish mobile phone SIM card, you can visit Irish mobile phone operators directly at the airport.
For making phone calls to your home country you can buy prepaid international call cards in internet cafes or any newsagents. You can also call from internet cafes or call shops.
You can view details information for all airports at
www.dublinairportauthority.com
Traveling from Dublin Airport
Taxi from Dublin Airport to Dublin City will cost approximately €25.00
Dublin Bus to O’Connell Street (City Centre) cost €1.75 Bus Numbers: 16A, 41, 41B, 41C, 46X
Dublin Bus Express – AIRLINK cost €5.00 Bus Numbers: 747 – via Central Bus Station and Connolly Rail Station
748 – via Heuston Rail Station, Connolly Rail Station and Central Bus Station
Aircoach Bus to City Centre cost €6.00
Traveling from Cork Airport
There is a coach that will take you to Parnell Place in Cork city, every 10-15 minutes.
If you are travelling to another Irish town by train, please go to Heuston Rail Station or Connolly Rail Station. For train timetables please visit website:
www.irishrail.ie/home/
If you are travelling to another Irish town by bus, please go to the Central Bus Station – Busaras. For bus timetables please visit website:
www.buseireann.ie/site/home/
For more information about public transport in Ireland, please visit
www.cie.ie
www.irishrail.ie/home/
www.buseireann.ie/site/home/
www.dublinbus.ie
www.aircoach.ie
Accommodation
In Dublin – When you arrive to Dublin City Centre, you may wish to stay overnight. We would recommend you to stay in one of the youth hostels from our list. All hostels are very close to the central bus station (Busaras)
- Browns Hostel; 89-90 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
- Isaacs Hostel; Frenchmans Lane; Dublin 1
- Jacobs Inn; 21 Talbot Place; Dublin 1
- Marlborough Hostel; 81/82 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
- Mount Eccles Court, 42 North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1
You can make internet or phone reservation prior to departure. The average price during the week (Sunday to Thursday) in a 10 beds dorm is €10/night including breakfast; and during the weekend (Friday and Saturday) it is €20/night. Smaller, more private rooms cost more. Normal checking out time is 10.00 am or 11.00 am. All hostels are no smoking and no alcohol drinking in the premises.
If you are looking for a long term accommodation anywhere in Ireland, we would recommend visiting this website:
www.daft.ie - details of accommodation for rent or visit any local estate agent office for local vacancies.
Bank account
Opening a bank account and transferring money home is the best to be done with AIB Bank. To open an account you need to come to any branch of the bank at office hours with following documents:
• Your passport
• Evidence of your address, such as a household bill (ESB, telephone, gas, etc.) in your name
• A letter from your employer confirming your employment and current address
You will also be asked to fill in the bank account opening application form. You will receive a bankcard by post within 10 days.
Starting Work
To ensure that your new employer deducts the right amount of tax from your pay, you will need to do two things:
• Give your employer your PPS Number. Your employer will then let your tax office know that you have started work and that they are your employers.
• Apply for a certificate of tax credits. You will need to complete an application form called FORM 12A – Application for a Certificate of Tax Credits and Standard Rate Cut-Off point
Until you receive your PPS number and send out filled 12A form, you will pay emergency tax at a rate of 42% on your entire earnings, so it is vital that you apply for your PPS Number as soon as possible.
Ask your employer for a 12A form, fill in all necessary details and post it to the local Tax Office. This letter is free of charge, no stamp required.
Your own personal circumstances dictate the amount of tax credits you are entitled to. The tax office will then forward you a detailed statement of your tax credits. Your employer will also be notified of your tax credits.
PPS Number
To make your stay in Ireland official you need to apply for PPS number. Your Personal Public Service (PPS) number is a unique reference number that helps to you to gain access to social welfare benefits, public services and information in Ireland.
Only your local Social Welfare Office (Opening hours: from 10.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 16.00 every day) can provide you with a PPS number. In order to receive a number, you will need to fill out an application form and provide proof of your identity.
If you are not Irish, you will need to produce the following documents:
• Your passport or national identity card
• Evidence of your address, such as a household bill (ESB, telephone, gas, etc.) in your name or a letter from your employer confirming your current address
• Second identity card such as driving license or wedding certificate
You will receive your PPS Number by post with 7-10 days.
If you do not know your PPS number, contact your local Social Welfare Office and staff there will find your number for you.
PPS numbers are printed on the following documents:
• Social Services Card • Drugs Payment Card
• P60 (the annual statement of pay, tax and social insurance contributions from your employer)
• P45 (the statement of tax and pay to date issued by employer when you leave employment)
• Tax Assessment
• PAYE Notice of Tax Credits
• Temporary Payment Card You cannot apply for a PPS Number before your arrival in Ireland.
You must be already living in Ireland in order to apply for a PPS Number.
Tax
Most employees in Ireland pay tax through the PAYE (Pay As You Earn) system. This means that your employer deducts the tax you owe directly from your wages, and pays this tax directly to the Revenue Commissioners. The Revenue Commissioners collect taxes from citizens on behalf of the Irish Government.
You can view the system and your rights at
www.revenue.ie
Tax Credits
Tax credits are the part of your income on which you are not liable for tax. In other words, you do not pay tax on all of your income and you can earn or receive a certain amount of income before you begin to pay tax. What this amount will be, depends on the value of your tax credits.
Details of all the main tax allowances and reliefs are given on the explanatory leaflet issued to you each year from the Revenue Commissioners with your certificate of tax credits. This information is also available from your tax office.
PRSI (Pay Related Social Insurance)
Most employers and employees (over 16 years of age) in Ireland pay social insurance contributions into Ireland's national Social Insurance Fund. The payment of social insurance is compulsory.
Your social insurance contributions in Ireland are referred to as PRSI (Pay Related Social Insurance) and they entitle you to a range of benefits that are administered by the Department of Social and Family Affairs.
As an employee you pay social insurance (generally Class A) and your employer will also pay social insurance on your behalf. It is important therefore to inform your new employer of your PPS number as this will ensure that your combined social insurance contributions are recorded and that your entitlement to benefits is protected for the future.
Your employer is responsible for deducting your social insurance contribution from your wages and paying it together with the employer’s contribution to the Revenue. The deduction is written on your payslip.
If the amount paid to the Revenue is not correct the employer is responsible for making up the deficit. Your employer keeps a record of the insurance contributions you make and is obliged to give you a P60 at the end of each year and a P45 if you leave the employment.
P45: If you leave your employment your employer must give you a P45.
Your P45 form is a statement from your employer that contains important information. Such as:
• the amount of pay you received to date
• the amount of tax and social insurance (PRSI) you paid to date
• the name of your last employer, etc.
It is a very important document and you need it if:
• You are changing job – to give to your new employer in order to avoid paying emergency tax
• You are unemployed – to claim a tax refund, to claim social welfare benefits If your employer does not give you a P45 you should ask for it.
P60: At the end of each tax year your employer must give you a P60.
Your P60 is a statement of
• your pay during the year
• the tax paid during the year
• PRSI deducted by your employer during the year.
The P60 has two parts and is an important document. If you need to claim a benefit you would send the second part to the Department of Social and Family Affairs as evidence of your paid PRSI contributions.
Changing job in Ireland
Whenever you leave a job you should get a form P45 from your employer.
When you begin work at your new job, you will need this P45 form to give to your new employer.
Your new employer then takes some details from your P45 and then sends your P45 form to the tax office on your behalf. This is to notify the tax office that you have now commenced working for a new employer and ensures that they are deducting tax appropriately.
When you give the P45 to your new employer, he/she will:
• Operate PAYE in accordance with the tax credits and standard cut off point details shown on the form P45 until he/she receives a tax credit certificate from the tax office.
• Notify the tax office that you have changed jobs so that a tax credit certificate can be issued for your new job.
If you do not give your new employer a form P45, emergency tax will be deducted.
Emergency Tax
If your employer has not received either a:
• Certificate of tax credits from the tax office or,
• Form P45 from you, in respect of your previous employment,
your employer will be obliged to deduct tax on an emergency basis when paying your employee's wages or salary.
This means that they will give you a temporary tax credit for the first month of employment but tax deductions are increased progressively from the second month onwards.
Unemployment Benefits
Unemployment Benefit in Ireland is a weekly payment made to insured people who are out of work. An 'insured person', is someone who was paying social insurance (PRSI) before they lost their job).
Unemployment benefit is paid by the Department of Social and Family Affairs through their network of local offices throughout the country.
To qualify for unemployment benefit you must:
• Be unemployed,
• Be aged under 66,
• Be capable of work,
• Be available for/genuinely seeking seek work,
• Have sufficient PRSI contributions and
• Have sustained a loss of employment in any period of six consecutive days.
Self-employed people do not qualify for Unemployment Benefit.
The most important rule is that within the EU you are always subject to the legislation of only one member state at any one time.
To simplify procedures in the sphere of social security, the EU has developed a system of unified sets of forms. These forms contain all the information necessary to determine your benefits and to prove your entitlement. Before leaving your home country you should always request the appropriate forms from the competent institutions. Upon arrival, the local institutions to which you present these forms will then be able to handle your case without delay.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT:
www.oasis.gov.ie information on your rights in Ireland
www.revenue.ie information regarding taxes
www.frsrecruitment.com information of jobs in Ireland
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Scope Section (Insurability of Employment)
Oisin House
212-213 Pearse Street
Dublin 2
Tel: (01) 704 3000
IMPORTANT CONTACT NUMBERS:
FRS Recruitment Head Office Roscrea Tel: 003 53 505 22100
Police / Ambulance Service: 999
Polish Consulate Dublin: 01 2830855
FRS Recruitment is an Irish recruitment agency with a specialist international recruitment division. We recruit employees to work directly for us and our clients from right across Eastern Europe and can help in your search for a job in Ireland. We employee a number of consultants who are fluent in Polish, Russian, Slovak, making it easier for you to find the right job in the right place as we have 10 offices across the country.
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