Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide the details of recent developments at the Blanchardstown Centre for the Unemployed community employment scheme including the efforts he has and will make to ensure it continues. [18701/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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On 26 May 2016, the Sponsor board of Blanchardstown Centre for the Unemployed formally advised the Department that it intended to discontinue its Community Employment (CE) Scheme.

On foot of this decision by the Sponsor Board, the Department has extended the scheme until 14/10/2016, by agreement with the Sponsor, to facilitate an orderly wind down of the Scheme.

It is the Department's intention that the Sponsor will retain all participants, who are eligible to remain on the Scheme, up until the Scheme closure date and that those participants who are eligible to remain on CE beyond 14/10/2015 will be facilitated to do so, with a transfer to other schemes in the Dublin 15 area where possible.

The Department will also examine the feasibility of transferring CE Supervisory staff to other Schemes within the Dublin 15 area.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.