Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The supervisors are employees under the individual CE sponsored organisation. Under the terms of the employment Acts from 1994 to 2001 an employer is legally obliged to provide certain information in written form, including what Deputy Ó Snodaigh has outlined. The sponsored groups were responsible for providing the information to the supervisors as they came on board. The Deputy knows as well as I do that some sponsoring groups have the resources to retain their supervisors, but CE is an activation measure and when people reach retirement age it provides an opportunity for other people to come through the scheme. There is a logic to it. I know individuals are very highly committed to the schemes and-----

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