Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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729. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in her Department in 2013. [1387/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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When the Department of Children and Youth Affairs was established in June 2011, three Job Bridge internships were in-place at the Office of the Minister for Children and these transferred to the Department on its establishment. As such, the last Job Bridge placement at my Department expired in January 2012.

In addition to the Job Bridge Programme, my Department has facilitated three other intern positions since establishment. Two of these relate to graduate research placements and the other to a programme to promote access to the labour market for graduates with disabilities and build the capacity of employers to integrate disability into the mainstream workplace. One of the graduate internships is currently in place. As a small Department, this represents 0.7% of total staff currently on an internship programme.