Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if applicants for the position of supervisor on the Tús scheme have to be on the live register or in receipt of jobseeker's allowance to be eligible for these positions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10349/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 and 188 together.

The then Minister for Finance announced the introduction of a community work placement initiative for up to 5,000 persons in his Budget statement to Dáil Éireann on the 7th December 2010. The initiative, known as Tús, was launched on the 21st December 2010 and work on developing the necessary implementation structures has been underway since then. The aim of Tús is to provide short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year. Some €30 million has been provided in the Department's Estimates in 2011 to fund the roll-out of the initiative.

Participants will, in the first instance, be identified by the Department of Social Protection by applying the following conditions:

· A person must be unemployed and in receipt of a jobseeker's payment for at least 12 months, and

· Currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, and

· Fully unemployed.

Persons with disabilities and in receipt of disability allowance and persons in receipt of one-parent family payment are not eligible for participation on Tús.