Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 May 2010
506 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will accept the recommendations of the Labour Court regarding pensions for community employment scheme supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19903/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraFurther to the answer given by my colleague the Minister for Labour Affairs and Public Service Transformation to the Deputy on 27 April 2010, I can confirm that my Department is considering with FÁS the implications of the Labour Court recommendation.
507 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons participating in community employment schemes; the number of same who are in receipt of other social welfare payments including one parent family, disability allowance, disability benefit and deserted wives benefit; her plans to review the practice of paying double payments in this way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19904/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraCommunity Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine and to assist them enhance/develop both their technical and personal skills. The reviewing of allowances is a budgetary matter. The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table.
|
Description |
No. |
|
Those in receipt of FÁS-funded CE allowances only |
11,720 |
|
Blind Pension |
19 |
|
Disability Allowance |
2,272 |
|
Illness Benefit |
900 |
|
Invalidity Pension |
1,706 |
|
One Parent Family Payment |
4,808 |
|
Deserted Wife’s Benefit |
186 |
|
Participants Total |
21,611 |
|
Supervisors |
1,425 |
|
Overall Total |
23,036 |
