Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of community employment schemes in existence. [9757/10]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost of increasing the number of community employment schemes by 5000. [9758/10]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost on increasing the number of community employment schemes by 10,000. [9759/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 47 to 49, inclusive, together.

There are over 1100 Community Employment (CE) Schemes and 23,300 approved CE places.

If the current levels of places per scheme remained constant, the cost of funding 5,000 extra CE schemes would be in the region of €1.7 billion. It therefore follows that the cost of doubling this to 10,000 schemes would cost approximately €3.4 billion.