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Éamon Ó Cuív, TD, Minister for Social Protection has said this morning (2 December 2010) that the participants of his Department’s Rural Social Scheme (RSS) have been requested to prioritise weather-related work as long as the current cold period continues. During the very cold weather at the start of the year, Rural Social Scheme participants responded within their rural communities to weather-related difficulties which impacted particularly on older people. The Minister said: "At that time, Rural Social Scheme participants made it their priority to support the vulnerable and isolated within their localities. They assisted in a number of ways including gritting footpaths and housing estates; cutting and delivering fire wood; supplying fresh water; buying and delivering groceries, picking up prescriptions and in some areas, providing a friendly call service to those living in isolation." Minister Ó Cuív added: "Rural Social Scheme participants are now once again engaging in these tasks. As the Scheme is a locally-based programme its participants can be quickly redeployed to respond flexibly to local priorities. Utilising the 2,600 RSS workers is a very effective way of providing these services particularly because of their local knowledge and first-hand experience of rural conditions." Editor's note: Rural Social Scheme The Rural Social Scheme currently provides additional work opportunities and income for certain categories of low income farming and fishing families, in the provision of essential community services and also in the development and maintenance of rural walkways and rural tourism. A spin-off is that the "meitheal oibre" or team-work nature of the Rural Social Scheme tackles the rural isolation that has come with modern mechanised farming practices. The Rural Social Scheme involves 2,600 workers and is managed by 35 local development companies countrywide. See the Department of Social Protection website for more detail of the Rural Social Scheme
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Eolas breise ar an Scéim Shóisialta Tuaithe Seoladh an Scéim Shóisialta Tuaithe i mí na Bealtaine 2004 chun forlíonadh ioncaim a sholáthar d'fheirmeoirí agus d’iascairí ar ioncam íseal, agus seirbhísí áirithe a sholáthar ag an am céanna a rachadh chun sochair do phobail tuaithe. Faoin scéim ní mór do rannpháirtithe obair a dhéanamh ar feadh 19.5 uair a chloig sa tseachtain. Riartar an scéim sa tslí nach gcuirfidh sé isteach ar uaireanta oibre feirmeoirí agus iascairí agus gur féidir le feirmeoirí agus iascairí uaireanta solúbtha a oibriú. Tá 2,600 áit ar fud na tíre i láthair na huaire do rannpháirtithe agus 130 áit do mhaoirseoir Ach tá athbhreithniú leanúnach á dhéanamh ar an uimhir sin. Is í an Roinn Coimirice Sóisialaí atá freagrach as oibriú na Scéim Sóisialta Tuaithe ach is Cuideachtaí Cur Chun Feidhme áitiúla a bhainistíonn an scéim thar ceann na Roinne, i gcomhar le hÚdarás na Gaeltachta i gceantair Ghaeltachta. Ba cheart duit teagmháil a dhéanamh i gcónaí leis an gComhlacht Cur Chun Feidhme áitiúil chun eolas breise nó foirm iarratais a fháil. Faigheann an Roinn tacaíocht chomh maith ó Pobal, a chuireann feidhmeanna riaracháin ar nós párolla agus oibriu na deisce cabhraí i gcrích ar a son.