CE participants to get longer on schemes while planning rules to be relaxed

THE three-year time limit on people participating in community employment schemes is expected to be relaxed by the Minister for Enterprise, Micheál Martin.

Also last night, it emerged that rural planning guidelines, relaxing rules on one off housing, will be implemented into planning law by the end of the year.

At a busy meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party, the Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, said he wanted to sign off on the planning guidelines before Christmas.