Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 274: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 2 November 2010, if he raised the FÁS materials budgets including payments for light bulbs, toilet rolls and sanitary bins during the Government deliberations on the four year budgetary framework and the outcome of those specific deliberations and if not, to outline whether his Department on his own initiative will take steps to reverse the recent trend in FÁS decisions including stipulations that lightbulbs other than those in staff areas, toilet rolls outside specified staff toilets and sanitary towel bins where community employment participants are post menopause cannot be claimed once responsibility transfers to him. [42526/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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It is not appropriate to reveal the content of the on-going Government deliberations on the four year budgetary framework. Day-to-day management of the Community Employment Scheme is a matter for FÁS and this position will not be altered by the terms of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 when commenced. The future administration of the Community Employment Scheme, when the relevant functions of FÁS are fully integrated with my Department, will be considered in the context of the circumstances, including the budgetary environment and the requirements of value for money, prevailing at that time.