![]() A Government can be judged by what it chooses to cut or support, and this Government's priorities are becoming clearer by the day. ![]() They say a society should be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. Níl mé ag iarraidh uirthi coimre a dhéanamh ar an chinneadh a rinneadh i mí na Nollag ach athrú iomlán a dhéanamh air, infheistíocht cheart a dhéanamh ins an gcóras, an t-airgead a sciopadh ós na scéimeanna a chur ar ais iontu agus iad a dhéanamh níos éifeachtaí ná mar atá siad faoi láthair. Táim ag impí ar an Aire agus ar a cúlbhinseoirí tacú leis an rún seo. Muna ndéanann an Rialtas athrú cuí ar an chinneadh a ghlac sé i mí na Nollag beimíd níos boichte as mar sochaí. Tá a lán den phobal atá ag brath ar na seirbhísí a chuireann na scéimanna ar fáil don phobal áitiúil. Déanann sé déileáil le ceist atá tábhachtach do a lán daoine, agus ní hamháin iad siúd atá gafa leis na scéimeanna fostaíochta pobail. Tá rún rí-thábhachtach curtha os ár gcomhair inniu ag Sinn Féin. I wish to share time with Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Seán Crowe, Mary Lou McDonald and Martin Ferris, in that order. calls on the Government to engage fully with CE schemes and their representatives, with the view to extending the CE schemes by increasing the number of CE places available, including special CE schemes, and enhancing the training available to participants. further recognises the important role CE schemes have played in providing training and education to lone parents and further notes that these cuts make participation in CE unaffordable for most lone parents, thereby threatening the community child care infrastructure, and calls on the Government to reverse these cuts condemns the abolition of concurrent payments and the CE qualified child increase paid to lone parents on CE acknowledges the important role CE schemes have played in providing child care facilities and assisting people back into education key role special CE schemes play in providing community-based drug rehabilitation important role CE schemes play in providing training to the long-term unemployed and ![]() essential services provided by CE schemes to the public and their participants these budget cuts will affect some of the most vulnerable in our society and will force CE schemes to close the proposed Department of Social Protection review is creating confusion and frustration and ![]() calls on the Government to immediately reverse the cut of 66% to the community employment (CE) schemes' training and materials budget and to immediately reinstate the training and materials budget to 2011 levels
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