Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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1. To ask the Taoiseach if community employment scheme and JobBridge participants are included in the employment statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10323/14]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State.

Participants on the following Activation Programmes are classified as employed in the QNHS.

Back to Work Schemes:

Back to Work allowance scheme - Employee strand.

Back to Work Enterprise allowance scheme -self employed strand.

Short-term Enterprise Allowance.

Other Activation Programmes:

DSP Part-time Job Incentive.

TUS - Community Work Placement Initiative (2011).

JobBridge (2011).

Community Employment Schemes.

Participants on the following Activation Programme are classified as unemployed in the QNHS:

FAS Full Time Training for Unemployed People.

Those on Back to Education courses - Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS); Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) - may engage in employment. Depending on their labour force situation they are classified based on the ILO labour force definition used in the QNHS.