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

As the Deputy was speaking, two things occurred to me that we could do in terms of joined-up thinking. The social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, which falls under the Department of Rural and Community Development, funds several friendly call service programmes nationally which contact older, often isolated, people by telephone.
It grew up over Covid. Maybe we can ask those services to spread the word about the senior alert scheme. With regard to joining up two Departments as well, I can talk to the sponsors of the community employment, TÚS and the rural social schemes to make sure they know about the senior alert scheme too. They have a lot of people on the ground who go into communities and situations. It is an easy enough job to get that dialogue happening between the two Departments, as I oversee both schemes as well. That could be a course of action I can take.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-23