Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by some Community Employment Schemes in recruiting staff to meet their quota of participants; the additional incentives that are needed to encourage more persons to take up vacant positions on such schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15907/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Community Development Officer with responsibility for this project is in regular contact with the person nominated for the day to day management of the Community Employment (CE) programme by the project’s Board of Directors. The issue raised has not been raised recently by the project sponsor with the Community Development Officer.

This project is currently in its first cycle of Year 1 of a three year contract. The contracted numbers are for 35 participants; there are currently 24 registered participants on the scheme. In recent days a further 17 persons have been referred to the CE supervisor, from which it is hoped that the 11 remaining vacant positions will be filled.