Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They have no pensions. The starting rates of pay for an assistant community employment supervisor is €11.01. It will actually be less than the minimum wage come the beginning of next year. What is most regrettable is that government after government has taken the line handed to it by the Civil Service and repeated it parrot like, that the State is not the employer and that it is up to the employers to give the community employment supervisors a pay rise. At the same time, if employers dared to give community employment supervisors a pay rise they would be penalised financially.