Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is aware that I am a big fan of community employment schemes, but the success of a community employment scheme is utterly dependent on its supervisor. Since 1998, there has been an issue around pensions for supervisors. In the Labour Court in 2008, it was decided that community employment scheme supervisors should be given a pension. Many of them have worked for decades on community employment schemes and have provided a huge service to their community. The issue was being dealt with by the former Minister, Deputy Howlin, who established a community sector informal forum at Department of Public Expenditure and Reform level. There does not seem to have been much activity in recent months since the Minister came to office. I want to get a sense of where it is at.

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