Noel Ahern
Ceist:598 Mr. N. Ahern asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the current number of persons on community employment schemes broken down between single people, married people or couples in a common law relationship and lone parents and deserted wives; the reason the schemes seem to have an ever-growing number of lone parents; the reason single and married people are discriminated against in that lone parents benefit more financially; if he will provide data on the financial benefits to each category over their social welfare equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16792/96]