29 Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the proposals from Social Justice Ireland for the creation of 100,000 part-time jobs in the public, community and voluntary sector in which the long-term unemployed could volunteer to participate in exchange for which they would be paid the going rate for the job and work the number of hours required to earn the equivalent of their social welfare payment up to a maximum of 19.5 hours plus a small top-up, €20; that participants would be remunerated principally through the re-allocation of social welfare payments and they would be allowed to take up other work in their spare time without incurring loss of benefits; and that income would be liable to tax in the ordinary way should their income level bring them into the tax net; and if she will introduce such a scheme. [29046/11]

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29 Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the proposals from Social Justice Ireland for the creation of 100,000 part-time jobs in the public, community and voluntary sector in which the long-term unemployed could volunteer to participate in exchange for which they would be paid the going rate for the job and work the number of hours required to earn the equivalent of their social welfare payment up to a maximum of 19.5 hours plus a small top-up, €20; that participants would be remunerated principally through the re-allocation of social welfare payments and they would be allowed to take up other work in their spare time without incurring loss of benefits; and that income would be liable to tax in the ordinary way should their income level bring them into the tax net; and if she will introduce such a scheme. [29046/11]

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