Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8149/23]

Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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Minister Humphreys has brought this correspondence to my attention as the Minister of State with responsibility for CE within her Department. A substantive reply to your correspondence will issue in the coming days.

For the Deputy's information, the following sets out the general position as regards the Department's funding rules for CE schemes and payment for supervisors.

Generally, grant funding provided to CE schemes includes funding to assist sponsoring organisations to employ supervisors on schemes. CE schemes with eleven to twenty-five participants receive funding to employ a CE supervisor.

Where a CE scheme maintains an approval level of twenty-six or more participants, additional grant support may be considered for the employment of an assistant supervisor.

I trust this clarifies the general position on this issue.