John Brady
Question:308. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated net cost of an additional 1,000 places on the community employment scheme for 2017. [14667/16]
View answerWednesday, 8 June 2016
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Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged with an opportunity to engage in part-time work and training within their communities on a temporary, fixed-term basis.
The CE budget allocation for 2016 is €376.5 million and it allows for 23,752 participants and 1,375 supervisory staff.
The estimated total costs of 1,000 additional CE places at 2016 rates, for a full year’s participation, would be approximately €14.9 million.
Question No. 309 answered with Question No. 307.