Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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504. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 7 March 2017 (details supplied) if, by the logic contained therein, the national average supervisor participation ratio will need to increase to 25:1 before a scheme is approved for an assistant supervisor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13227/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Social Protection is the funder of Community Employment (CE) schemes. CE Sponsors are the legal employers of CE Supervisors. Each application by a CE Sponsor for supervisory grant support is examined on a case-by-case basis.

Where a CE scheme maintains an approval level of 26 or more participants, additional supervisory grant support may be considered for an assistant supervisor position. My Department will only consider such grant support when the Sponsor submits a detailed job description for the additional supervision tasks. Each application is then examined on a case-by-case basis.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.