Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of long-term unemployed persons who have been employed as part of the initiative led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the devolved schools building programme, design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of his Department. [15782/14]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects under the devolved schools building programme, design and build framework, administered by the National Development Finance Agency on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills, that are hiring a certain percentage of construction workers from the cohort of persons on the live register who are long-term unemployed; and if he will detail the projects under which apprentices are being employed as required. [15892/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 72 and 73 together.

The details of schools to which the Deputy refers are set out in the following table. The schools were bundled under 3 separate contracts. The contractor for bundle 1 commenced on site in February while the contracts for bundles 2 and 3 commenced in late March. To date the contractor on bundle 1 has employed 8 people who have been unemployed for more than 1 year. The contractors on bundles 2 and 3 have each engaged 1 person to date. All 3 contractors are involved in further recruitment processes in these matters.