Stephen Cadogan: Six-year rule must change or vital rural workers will be lost
Work carried out by RSS participants includes maintaining and enhancing walking routes and bog roads, energy conservation work for older people and those at risk of poverty. File picture
About 1,400 rural workers must step down next February unless a six-year participation rule is changed in the Rural Social Scheme (RSS).
The six-year rule is causing enormous stress to participants, who are effectively on notice that they will lose their jobs next year, said Liz Macdonald, a Co Galway RSS supervisor who is joint chair of the RSS national committee.
