Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Community Employment Programme: SIPTU

Mr. Conor Mahon:

Yes, exactly. These people want to use CE to go down a different route. For us, these people are brilliant candidates because they are very engaged in training, want to progress and I am sure we will have huge progression rates to show for that type of candidate. Equally, there are candidates who might have been unemployed to begin with prior to Covid. As their social issues will have been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, they are even further removed than they ever were. They already were removed potential participants, which is very much like what Mr. Kearney has outlined. CE offers great flexibility for a certain number of the ex PUP-payment-type of people who seek retraining.

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