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

I genuinely thank all the Deputies for their contributions and acknowledgement of the importance of community employment. I will give some points of information in response to Deputy Moynihan's question. The 2008 Labour Court recommendation deals with the CE supervisor and assistant supervisor pension issue solely. It related to these two categories of employees and did not deal with job initiative scheme or Tús employees or the RSS, which is a different type of scheme. It is in this context that officials in my Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the unions representing the community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors held discussions to progress this issue.

Another Deputy made the point that some CE supervisors had passed on. My understanding is that should an agreement be reached, the estate of a former supervisor could apply to whatever scheme is agreed upon. The Deputies will appreciate that I do not want to go into too much detail and that my officials are working on a response.

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