Pádraig MacLochlainn
Question:136. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection when the interdepartmental review of the community employment schemes will be published. [24510/20]
View answerThursday, 17 September 2020
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The Community Employment (CE) programme is a community centred labour market initiative established for the purposes of social inclusion and activation, to help long-term unemployed people and other vulnerable groups to enter the workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment.
In early 2019, the Government agreed to establish an Interdepartmental Group (IDG) to explore how social inclusion schemes might be organised going forward.
A number of meetings of the IDG took place and a series of follow-up meetings were undertaken with the relevant Departments. There was also a stakeholder consultation process which resulted in a number of submissions that were included in the wider review.
The final Interdepartmental Group report is currently with my Department for consideration and will be submitted to Government in due course.