Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development
Ms Deirdre Kelly:
The annual report is coming soon. There are a number of case studies, and more analytical work is done in the annual report. I have a few outputs that may be of interest. The level of detail I have to hand would not be able to give the Deputy a full answer but certainly, there are a few outputs here that might be of interest.
Since 2018, which is the current SICAP programme, 107,553 individuals have been supported under SICAP on different things, such as lifelong learning, unemployment supports, etc. A total of 5,539 local community groups and 953 social enterprises have been supported under SICAP. A total of 8,782 people have progressed into employment since 2018 with the supports they got under SICAP, and 11,036 people have set up their own businesses, which is another element of SICAP, by the way, that provides supports for enterprise development and start-ups with mentoring and that kind of thing. Nearly 53,500 people have participated in what is defined as lifelong learning, which is training and further capacity-building supports under SICAP. They are just some of the numbers. I know that is not what the Deputy is looking at really. It is more impact rather than the outputs.
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