Written answers
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Department of Social Protection
Employment Support Services
Patrick Nulty (Dublin West, Independent)
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92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons engaged in JobBridge from each year since its foundation; if she will provide a full breakdown of all Government employment schemes and a breakdown of the numbers involved in all types of activation schemes since 2006: if she will provide all this information in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12311/14]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Data on participation on full-time activation programmes have been published by the CSO only since the beginning of 2007.
Figures for participation at the end of January in each year since then are contained in Table 1 as follows.
Table 1: Participation in Activation Programmes End- Jan 2007 to End Jan 2014
Participation in Activation Programmes
| - | End-Jan 2007 | End-Jan 2008 | End-Jan 2009 | End-Jan 2010 | End-Jan 2011 | End-Jan 2012 | End-Jan 2013 | End-Jan 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back to work allowance (employee strand) | #NA | #NA | #NA | 1881 | 786 | 162 | 14 | 9 |
| Back to work allowance (self-employed strand)1 | #NA | #NA | #NA | 5902 | 9483 | 11973 | 11814 | 10648 |
| Back to work allowance total | 8265 | 9069 | 7908 | 7783 | 10269 | 12135 | 11828 | 10657 |
| Other activation programmes - DSP part-time job incentive | 201 | 210 | 194 | 173 | 161 | 190 | 215 | 296 |
| Other activation programmes - TUS - community work placement initiative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2337 | 4510 | 7119 |
| Other activation programmes - JobBridge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3469 | 5565 | 6440 |
| Other Activation programmes - total | 201 | 210 | 194 | 173 | 161 | 5996 | 10290 | 13855 |
| Community employment schemes (excluding supervisors) | 22591 | 21142 | 22468 | 21679 | 21824 | 22298 | 21063 | 22512 |
| FAS/SOLAS full time training for unemployed people | 8465 | 8835 | 9264 | 11221 | 8660 | 9001 | 9346 | 8276 |
| Vocational training opportunities scheme (VTOS) (estimated) | 5000 | 5000 | 5000 | 5000 | 5000 | 5000 | 5000 | 5000 |
| Back to education allowance (BTEA) | 7601 | 7880 | 11534 | 20810 | 25050 | 25646 | 25805 | 24728 |
| Back to education programmes total | 12601 | 12880 | 16534 | 25810 | 30050 | 30646 | 30805 | 29728 |
| Total activation programmes | 52123 | 52136 | 56368 | 66666 | 70964 | 80076 | 83332 | 85028 |
1 including Short-term Enterprise Allowance
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