501. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection to change the rules relating to community employment schemes, given that there are barriers to recruitment; to change the year 2000 rule for a programme to a new starting point of 2015; to give referrals into schemes such as community employment and training and education programmes the same weight as full-time jobs in local employment service contract with his Department, that is, a return to pre-2016, 50% overall progression rates; to reduce the minimum qualifying age to 21 years in its entirety; to change the eligibility from 12 months to three months unemployed; to allow spousal swap; to provide additional financial reward for lone parents; to net the minimum time on community employment schemes at two years in real terms; and to allow persons over 62 years of age to stay on schemes. [9844/16]

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501. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Social Protection to change the rules relating to community employment schemes, given that there are barriers to recruitment; to change the year 2000 rule for a programme to a new starting point of 2015; to give referrals into schemes such as community employment and training and education programmes the same weight as full-time jobs in local employment service contract with his Department, that is, a return to pre-2016, 50% overall progression rates; to reduce the minimum qualifying age to 21 years in its entirety; to change the eligibility from 12 months to three months unemployed; to allow spousal swap; to provide additional financial reward for lone parents; to net the minimum time on community employment schemes at two years in real terms; and to allow persons over 62 years of age to stay on schemes. [9844/16]

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