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Lone Parents Group Claims Government is Targeting Poor Families Through CE Cutbacks
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Saturday November 22, 2003 18:15 by B Hughes - Parents Alone Support Service passltd at eircom dot net 3a Main St, Finglas, Dublin 11
Protest called outside Dail for Weds 26th November at 11.00 am The National Organisation of Lone Parents, OPEN stated in a press release "The proposed changes to Community Employment and the axing of other labour market programmes are further damning evidence of a lack of government commitment to poor families, in spite of rhetoric about child poverty [...]" OPEN, the national network of lone parent groups has expressed its anger and dismay at the latest reported changes to the Community Employment (CE) programme. "During its first incarnation, the FF/PD coalition altered the CE programme so that lone parents under 25 years of age were excluded from participation" said Frances Byrne, spokesperson for the group. "The latest leaked report proposes increasing CE hours from 19.5 to 30 hours per week. This change would discriminate against lone parents with school-going children, who will simply not be available to work the extended hours. To add insult to injury, CE participants would not be paid for the additional hours. Every report, including those commissioned by the government, has shown that lone parents rely on this scheme to overcome poverty and welfare dependency", continued Ms. Byrne, "How then can this government justify punishing some of the most excluded families in the state?"
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It is not possible to throw large numbers of people on to the scrapheap without at least some of them getting upset.
Between cutting benefits and reducing access we are hoping to create the conditions whereby a hard winter will reduce the quantity of dead wood this country has to carry. The more people who chose to live on hunger strike in protest camps the more successful this strategy will be.
We are building an Ireland where it will be possible to really enjoy your wealth. We know that the few who thrive will truly appreciate the sacrifices of those who could not make it.
A change in the hours of work would also greatly affect many disabled people as some may only be able to do part-time work (at least those who are disabled by illness).
Orla
"Increasing CE hours from 19.5 to 30 hours per week" can, and should, be challenged as being in breach of Minimum Pay legislation.
I wonder at the mentality of the faceless officials who compile those reports. They are so far removed from the realities facing the people whose lives they effect.
These cuts can be stopped, but if you want to stop them you must be prepared to mount a sustained campaign, and that campaign must be in the hands of the CE workers themselves.
NOTE: Use the word 'workers', NOT "participants" (let's get our terminology accurate)