Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons participating in community employment schemes; the numbers of same who are in receipt of other social welfare payments including the one parent family payment, disability allowance, disability benefit and deserted wives' benefit; her plans to review the practice of paying double payments in this way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19640/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine and to assist them the enhance/develop both their technical and personal skills.

The number of persons currently participating on CE Schemes is 23,102 including Supervisors. Of these, 9,860 are in receipt of other Social Welfare benefits. The reviewing of these allowances is a budgetary matter.

A breakdown of these payments is contained in the table.