Written answers
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Department of Social Protection
Job Initiatives
5:00 pm
John Lyons (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the take-up of employer job PRSI incentive scheme by employers; if she will provide the figures of the number of jobs created under the scheme; and if it is possible to provide this information on a constituency or area-specific basis. [31511/12]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The employer job PRSI incentive scheme allows an employer who employs an additional member of staff, who had been unemployed for 6 months or more, to be exempted from paying employers' PRSI for 18 months. The job must be new and additional, be for at least 30 hours a week and last for at least six months. In 2010, a total of 736 employers were awarded exemptions in respect of 1,202 employees. A total of 660 employers were awarded exemptions in respect of 923 employees in 2011. To date in 2012, 239 employers have been awarded exemptions in respect of 311 employees. A breakdown by county is detailed in table 1 and 2.
Table 1 shows a breakdown by county of employers approved for the scheme since 2010.
Table 1
County | Employers 2010 | Employers 2011 | Employers 2012 |
Carlow | 10 | 11 | 6 |
Cavan | 18 | 12 | 5 |
Clare | 28 | 21 | 6 |
Cork | 76 | 71 | 29 |
Donegal | 27 | 23 | 4 |
Dublin | 193 | 177 | 71 |
Galway | 46 | 45 | 10 |
Kerry | 19 | 18 | 4 |
Kildare | 26 | 23 | 8 |
Kilkenny | 13 | 14 | 8 |
Laois | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Leitrim | 10 | 4 | 1 |
Limerick | 31 | 39 | 8 |
Longford | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Louth | 24 | 17 | 12 |
Mayo | 14 | 12 | 9 |
Meath | 27 | 17 | 11 |
Monaghan | 20 | 15 | 5 |
Offaly | 11 | 11 | 2 |
Roscommon | 9 | 6 | 4 |
Sligo | 22 | 25 | 3 |
Tipperary | 24 | 19 | 9 |
Waterford | 19 | 15 | 8 |
Westmeath | 13 | 15 | 5 |
Wexford | 30 | 20 | 6 |
Wicklow | 17 | 22 | 1 |
Total | 736 | 660 | 239 |
Table 2 shows a breakdown by county of employees approved for this scheme since 2010.
Table 2
County | Employees 2010 | Employees 2011 | Employees 2012 |
Carlow | 27 | 11 | 13 |
Cavan | 34 | 20 | 7 |
Clare | 35 | 35 | 8 |
Cork | 141 | 120 | 44 |
Donegal | 46 | 38 | 5 |
Dublin | 303 | 231 | 87 |
Galway | 99 | 50 | 12 |
Kerry | 25 | 26 | 4 |
Kildare | 32 | 39 | 9 |
Kilkenny | 16 | 14 | 9 |
Laois | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Leitrim | 12 | 4 | 1 |
Limerick | 63 | 52 | 9 |
Longford | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Louth | 33 | 22 | 15 |
Mayo | 15 | 18 | 15 |
Meath | 37 | 24 | 17 |
Monaghan | 28 | 19 | 5 |
Offaly | 13 | 15 | 2 |
Roscommon | 19 | 7 | 4 |
Sligo | 37 | 41 | 5 |
Tipperary | 51 | 27 | 10 |
Waterford | 41 | 23 | 12 |
Westmeath | 23 | 15 | 5 |
Wexford | 32 | 33 | 8 |
Wicklow | 26 | 29 | 1 |
Total | 1202 | 923 | 311 |
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