Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection to allow a theatre company (details supplied) in County Kerry to retain an allocation of €373 surplus, full-time equivalent at the end of 2011, due to the reduction of PRSI rate to 4.25 from July 2011. [31837/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The community services programmes (CSP) co-funds the services delivered by around 440 community based not-for-profit enterprises across the State. Some €47.4 million has been allocated to the programme in 2011 supporting some 2,800 people in full and part time employment. A key requirement of the programme is that the service provider must generate a significant element of their turnover from traded activity or other non-public sources of income. The reduction in the rate of employers' PRSI resulting from the Government's Jobs Initiative will have a positive effect on some service providers funded by the CSP by reducing their PRSI liability.

I do not propose to alter the value of the contracts in place with service providers for 2011.