Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to changes to job specification and terms and conditions for community employment supervisors due to larger numbers of participants per project; if his attention has been further drawn to the ongoing changes to the community employment manual yet no pay increases have been carried out to reflect this since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11779/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Community Employment (CE) Sponsoring Organisations are the legal employers of Community Employment Supervisors. CE supervisors have benefited from pay increases linked to all phases of Benchmarking, Sustaining Progress (Parts 1 and 2) and Towards 2016 (all 4 phases) in the past, and have experienced no reduction in pay over recent years.

There have been no significant changes to the community employment manual in the last number of years and in addition the average supervisor to participant ratio is less than 17:1 which is well below the average approved level of 25:1.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.