Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 29 January 2013, when the community employment programme which was transferred to her Department in October 2010 from FÁS and the provision in the FÁS accounts of €3.75 million for supervisor pensions was reversed, while accepting no cash was transacted up to that point, the reason it was decided that no amount would be included in or be provided for in the expenditure for her Department to deal with this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7716/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform have informed FÁS and subsequently this Department that any provision for pensions for Community Employment (CE) supervisors would have to be financed from the existing financial resource allocation. Additional funding will not be available to cover this item. That has left the Department in the position that it would have to cut CE participant numbers substantially to fund the CE supervisor pensions, which is not a viable option. As previously stated, the Department works on a cash accounting basis, so no provision has been made in the current CE budget for supervisor pensions since the transfer of responsibilities.