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Thursday, 30 July 2020

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Community Employment Schemes

Photo of Claire KerraneClaire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing for an additional 1,000 places on the community employment scheme. [20021/20]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The aim of the Community Employment (CE) programme is to enhance the employability of unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities.  Its objective is to help long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce.

The estimated cost of 1,000 places on the CE Scheme for one year is €16.8m, based on 2020 figures.  When the cost of the underlying DEASP support payment to CE participants is removed, the net cost of the additional 1,000 CE places amounts to an estimated €5.6 million per annum.

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