Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reduction she will make to the community employment and jobs initiative allowances; if her attention has been drawn to the ramifications that this will have on the rate of take-up of these schemes and those persons in long-term unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3306/10]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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As stated in the reply to the Deputy on 16th December 2009 the Social Welfare linked allowances paid to participants on Community Employment (CE) and Jobs Initiative (JI) programmes and FÁS training courses were reduced in Budget 2009 in line with the Budget reductions to Social Welfare recipients.

The FÁS additional allowance for participants on CE and JI have been reduced from €24.40 and €48.80 per week to €20 and €40 per week respectively.

The cuts in CE were necessary to fund increased activation measures in 2010 including an additional 500 CE places to bring the total number of CE places to 23,300.