Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43593/14]

Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The programme and training monitoring carried out under Community Employment (CE) focuses on gaining evidence from individual schemes of their compliance with the CE Operational Procedures, which sets the quality standard for the schemes. The purpose of this is to ensure that the CE participant benefits from the programme and is assured of getting a quality service.

In relation to follow-up with CE participants, this is to ensure that there is a smooth transition from the programme and that a level of support is still provided to the individual. It was always the role of the CE scheme and supervisor to support the job search of the CE participant – particularly when coming up to leaving the scheme. This arrangement was formalised in special agreements which were put in place under Benchmarking, Sustaining Progress and T16 awards for CE Supervisors. These conditions were agreed in consultation with the representative bodies at the time and were widely circulated to schemes.