Written answers

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

National Internship Scheme Placements

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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322. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1395/14]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department is a participant in the "JobBridge National Internship Scheme” providing work experience placements for interns for a 6 or 9 month period. As interns gain valuable experience which should assist them in their future careers, my Department is pleased to be able to offer these opportunities where appropriate.

I might emphasise for the Deputy that Internships do not displace any existing staff and are not used to fill vacant posts. Rather they represent an opportunity for the Department to undertake once-off or project-type work for which there exists a clear definition of objectives relevant to the duration of the internship that we would otherwise be unable to undertake. They also, of course, afford the internee the opportunity to gain the aforementioned valuable work experience. The nature of intern placements offered to date by my Department has been in areas such as company law and legal research, intellectual property and copyright report research, records management and entrepreneurship strategy projects.

The information requested by the Deputy for 2013 has been set out, as requested, in tabular format below.

YearNumber of JobBridge Interns taken on
20137

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