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.