A rally to protest against proposed budget cuts to Community Employment Schemes across Clare will take place at Leinster House today
Officials responsible for the administration of CE schemes here say the passing of the Social Welfare Bill will decimate the programs here in the county.
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22,000 people avail of them nationwide, but funding for the programs is to be cut by two-thirds unless there is a last-minute change of heart.
Brian Higgins is with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ Centre for the Unemployed in Ennis – he’s calling on Clare’s TDs to oppose the changes
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