Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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530. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide a table of local employment service providers showing the number of staff they employ, the grant they receive from the State and the number of individuals they place in work. [34722/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The department contracts for the provision of the local employment service (LES) with 22 local development/community companies, the details of which are set out in the following list. These organisations deliver employment services through a network of offices and outreach clinics. The LES provide services for both jobseekers who are referred to them by the department for activation supports and those who are most distant from the labour market e.g. people who have a disability, lone parents, ex-offenders, etc. In the first six months of 2013, apart from placing 4,094 people into employment, the LES have also progressed 11,840 people into training/educational programmes.

As the Department may shortly be tendering for providers to augment the capacity of LES, I do not intend to publish figures or the payments made to individual LES contractors at this time.

Local Employment Service (LES) Providers 2013

Northside Partnership

Ballymun/Whitehall Area Partnership

Tolka Area Partnership (Dublin)

Bluebell, Inchicore, Islandbridge, Kilmainham & Rialto Co Ltd

Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership Ltd

Blanchardstown Area Partnership

Ballyfermot Chapelizod Partnership Co Ltd

South Dublin County Ltd (SDC)

Southside Partnership (Dublin)

Co Kildare Local Employment Service Network

Bray Area Partnership

Monaghan Integrated Development

Louth Leader Partnership

Mayo North East LEADER Partnership Co Teoranta

Galway City Partnership

People Action Against Unemployment Ltd (PAUL) (Limerick)

Cork City Partnership Ltd

South Kerry Development Partnership

North & East Kerry Leader Partnership Teo

Waterford Area Partnership

Waterford Leader Partnership Ltd

Wexford Local Development