Rural Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-03
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Claire Kerrane (SF), Roscommon-Galway

This is to ask the Minister about the six-year rule. It is an issue I have raised previously in respect of the rural social scheme, RSS. A number of welcome changes to community employment were announced before Christmas. They have been extended to the scheme, which is welcome as well. None of them addresses the issue that has been brought up by so many of those on the ground in respect of the six-year rule. That is the specific part of the question I would like answered.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-03