Community Employment Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-23
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Joe O'Brien (GP), Dublin Fingal

We have a network of community and voluntary organisations throughout the country that should cover every geographic area. There are responsible community organisations in every area. If the Deputy believes a particular area is not properly covered, we would like to know about it. The organisations are effective in getting the word out. They use CE, Tús or RSS participants in the process of getting the word out and the equipment in and connecting it and so on. Some of them also use full-time paid employees to do the process. There is a healthy flow of new joiners, with between 15,000 and 19,000 new people joining the seniors alert scheme every year. If there are particular examples, we would be eager to know about them because it is an effective and important scheme.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-23