Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding to community employment by 10%. [20023/20]

Heather 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.

There are currently just under 21,000 participants on Community Employment.  The budget for the programme in 2020 is €349 million.The estimated cost of a 10% increase in CE funding would be  approximately €35 million.