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.