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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 24 Jan 1995

Vol. 447 No. 11

Written Answers. - Christmas Bonus.

Brendan Kenneally

Question:

237 Mr. Kenneally asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the reason people on community enterprise schemes qualifed for the Christmas bonus whilst people on team-work schemes did not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3915/94]

I presume that the Deputy is referring to the payment of a Christmas bonus to participants on the community employment programme. A Christmas bonus is generally paid by the Department of Social Welfare to persons in receipt of long term social welfare payments. Community employment is the principal manpower intervention aimed at persons who are long term unemployed and participants retain any secondary and other social welfare benefits to which they were entitled prior to participation. All participants on the programme were paid a Christmas bonus last year by FÁS.

Teamwork, which is being phased out and replaced by Community Employment, was targeted at young people on the live register or who had been participating on YOUTHREACH. It was not a programme for the long term unemployed and as such the payment of a Christmas bonus did not arise.
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