981. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the negative effects that changes made to the partial capacity scheme are having on persons who have very significant impairments and who are trying to return to work for rehabilitative purposes; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that persons on an invalidity pension went back to work on the understanding that they could receive a partial capacity payment and their employer would get the wage subsidy scheme only to now discover that whereas once a person could get both now it is one or the other; her views on whether the change was sufficiently communicated to both Departmental staff and would-be applicants for partial capacity payment; her plans to reverse the changes made to the regime in October 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14465/21]

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981. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the negative effects that changes made to the partial capacity scheme are having on persons who have very significant impairments and who are trying to return to work for rehabilitative purposes; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that persons on an invalidity pension went back to work on the understanding that they could receive a partial capacity payment and their employer would get the wage subsidy scheme only to now discover that whereas once a person could get both now it is one or the other; her views on whether the change was sufficiently communicated to both Departmental staff and would-be applicants for partial capacity payment; her plans to reverse the changes made to the regime in October 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14465/21]

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