Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will be paying particular attention to CE schemes that are providing essential services. The operational forum recommenced on 11 June. We will be having other meetings in September and some months after that to determine how we can get through these challenges over time. It came up during the proceedings of the forum that many schemes were not aware of the service support stream. I want to share information on this because it is useful. CE employment participants over the age of 62 can participate on CE continuously until they reach the State pension age via the CE service support stream. Participation is subject to availability of places, satisfactory performance on the CE scheme and annual approval by the Department. The number of places available for service support scheme participants within each CE scheme is subject to limitation criteria. In seven of the eight divisions, there are free places on the service support scheme. That is worth noting and spreading the word about.

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