Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Policy to Minimise Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection

11:10 am

Ms Teresa Leonard:

On community employment, I understand departmental officials will appear before the joint committee next week to discuss the scheme. There are 22,300 people participating in community employment schemes, of whom 13.1% are people with disabilities. There is a high level of participation in such schemes by people with disabilities.