Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can be granted an extension to their community employment scheme. [36142/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Community Employment has three options each with its own set of qualifying conditions, namely:

Part Time Integration Option (PTI)

Part Time Job Option (PTJ)

Service Support Stream – SSS (Pilot)

This client has been employed by Enable Ireland on CE since 6 January 2014 under the Part Time Integration Option (PTI).

This is the only option that the client is eligible for as she had been in receipt of a qualifying payment for less than three years.

It is a 12-month work programme with training and development opportunities which offers eligible participants part-time work and training for one year. In certain circumstances some participants may be re-engaged for a consecutive 12 months, with approval from my Department where this is deemed to further their employment prospects.

It was on this basis that this client has already been previously granted additional time on Community Employment. As a result, it is not possible to extend the client’s time for any further period and her finishing date is Friday, 30 December 2016.

I trust that this clarified the matter for the Deputy.