AQW 39179/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 21/11/2014
Answered On Date: 05/12/2014
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development whether he intends to extend the temporary work available for surplus staff from the Driver and Vehicle Agency offices in Coleraine with the Child Maintenance Services.

Answer:

The Department was able to provide the Department of the Environment with temporary work for the Driver and Vehicle Agency staff in Coleraine until December 14. This work was in preparation for Phase 2 of Child Maintenance Reform. The preparation exercise conducted in Coleraine is now in the final stages of completion and will come to a conclusion as initially anticipated at the end of December 2014.

While I sympathise with the situation faced by the Driver and Vehicle Agency staff in Coleraine, I am unfortunately not in a position to extend the temporary work beyond December 2014.