Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans in the forthcoming budget to enhance the social insurance status and accessibility to re-training and educational and community employment courses for citizens, mainly women who were working in the home for many years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24928/15]

Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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There are currently no plans to change the eligibility criteria to allow persons who do not currently qualify for Community Employment to participate. Persons not in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment may be eligible for other interventions and can be advised of such by their local Intreo Office.

Pathways to Work 2015 includes targets for Quarter 3 2015, to develop options for extension of employment services options to cohorts other than jobseekers on the Live Register; and to develop resourcing options to support extension of employment services activity to cohorts other than those of the Live Register by 2016. My Department is currently examining these issues.