Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings that Community Employment Schemes are making to the Health Budget, in view of the number of persons, with both physical and mental disabilities, who are engaged on the Schemes that provide rehabilitation. [25077/15]

Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The savings to the health budget attributable to services provided by Community Employment (CE) schemes is a matter for the Department of Health.

There are approximately 2,650 health and social care places currently on CE as at the end of May 2015. These CE places are filled by persons on jobseekers allowance, one parent family payment and persons on a disability-related payment e.g. disability allowance and invalidity pension.