Community employment (CE) supervisors attended the Fine Gael constituency offices throughout the recent Dáil bye-election campaign to quiz candidates and existing TDs about the Government’s failure to reconvene the Community Sector High-Level Forum and find solutions to long-standing grievances.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was also targeted during the campaign, which followed the presentation of a letter to the Dáil to seek TDs’ support in putting pressure on the finance minister Paschal Donohoe.

Fórsa and Siptu had previously called on the minister to convene a meeting of the forum to discuss issues like funding, pensions and policy.

Industrial action by CE supervisors was suspended in May this year following an agreement with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) to enter into a talks process aimed at resolving a long-running dispute.