Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions No 110 and 111 of 14 December 2011, if he has home addresses for these workers; if these workers have been contacted by him since the replies to these Parliamentary Questions were issued; the date on which contact was made; the number of replies received by him; the number of persons as of the end of December 2011 who have accessed personalised services designed to re-integrate them into the labour market since the date of contact; if he will provide a breakdown by county for each of the answers provided in response to this question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1032/12]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 237: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of redundant construction workers eligible for support under the European Globalisation Fund funding programme that have contacted the EGF website since it went live in December 2011; the number of these workers who have accessed personalised services designed to re-integrate them into the labour market since the date of contact; if he will provide breakdown by county of both figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1034/12]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 and 237 together.

Of the 8,924 persons on the Department's database deemed eligible for EGF-related services, 8,779 were recorded as having a home address in this jurisdiction. Letters of notification of relevant EGF services issued to these persons on 19 December 2011. The other 145 persons do not have a recorded address in this State such as would indicate their availability to take up offers of retraining or upskilling in this State. A county breakdown by home address of the 8,779 persons notified is set out in Table 1 under.

A dedicated EGF Construction Contact Centre has been established to provide phone and on-line information and support, facilitate access to professional career and occupational guidance, make onwards referrals to other service providers and to administer EGF Training Grants.

In addition, WRC Social and Economic Consultants Ltd have been contracted by my Department to collate management information data on the three EGF construction programmes in cooperation with the EGF Construction Contact Centre. Monthly reports on uptake of personalised services and other relevant statistical information are required to be submitted to this Department. The first such report will cover the period to end January 2012.

By 9 January 2012, a total of 553 queries had been received by the EGF Construction Contact Centre and a total of 73 clients had been referred to the national VEC Coordinator for tailored VEC career guidance courses. A county-by-county breakdown of this data is not currently to hand but is being compiled as part of the monthly reporting to the Department.

Between the date that the EGF website www.egf.ie went live (also on 19 December 2011) and 9 January 2012, a total of 1,123 unique visits to the site were recorded. A county breakdown of these website visits is set out in Table 2 under.

For the same period, a total of 76 on-line applications on the website were made for EGF training grants. A county breakdown of these website applications is set out in Table 3.

Table 1: Notifications issued 19/12/11 to EGF construction clients by county

County Number

Carlow 196

Cavan 162

Clare 179

Cork 1238

Donegal 190

Dublin 2056

Galway 391

Kerry 274

Kildare 483

Kilkenny 256

Laois 179

Leitrim 52

Limerick 374

Longford 45

Louth 254

Mayo 239

Meath 422

Monaghan 88

Offaly 125

Roscommon 94

Sligo 85

Tipperary 356

Waterford 258

Westmeath 150

Wexford 373

Wicklow 260

Total 8779

Table 2: Unique visits to www.egf.ie by county 19/12/11-9/1/12:

County Unique Website Visits

Dublin 829

Cork 76

Limerick 73

Galway 14

Kerry 14

Sligo 14

Kildare 12

Waterford 12

Kilkenny 8

Carlow 7

Tipperary 6

Westmeath 6

Donegal 3

Wexford 3

Clare 2

Cavan 2

Louth 1

Laois 1

Mayo 1

Wicklow 1

Outside Ireland 38

Total 1,123

Table 3: Applications for EGF Training Grants via www.egf.ie by county 19/12/11-9/1/12:

County number

Dublin 23

Cork 15

Laois 5

Wicklow 5

Kildare 4

Kilkenny 3

Tipperary 3

Waterford 3

Limerick 2

Mayo 2

Meath 2

Roscommon 2

Wexford 2

Galway 1

Kerry 1

Leitrim 1

Louth 1

Sligo 1

Total 76