Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the report on the Labour Market Activation Programmes to ensure that all stakeholders have a fair opportunity to study its findings in advance of any further policy change. [44549/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department assumed full responsibility for the Community Employment Programme on the 1st of January 2012. The Department then initiated a financial review of the Programme to examine the income and funding of sponsoring organisations in terms of their ability to continue to deliver the programme. This review has now been completed and published. The review reflects the outcomes of the discussions that took place with community employment sponsors and sets out a series of recommendations for the future financial and operational management of the programme. Separately, the Department is also conducting policy review of the overall range of employment support, activation and work schemes operated by the Department.

The aim of this activation review is to assess the schemes, individually and in combination, “in the light of their contribution to the Department’s policy objective of supporting people of working age into employment” and to “recommend any changes to the current range of schemes/programmes seen as required on the basis of the analysis carried out”. The review will be completed shortly, discussed by Government and then published. It will then be discussed with stakeholders.