Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form for 2014 a list of all education, training, internship and activation schemes for recipients of a jobseeker's payment; the number of persons attending each scheme; and if recipients of the jobseeker's allowance attending the scheme are categorised as employed for the purposes of the live register whilst participating in the programme. [5257/15]

Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I have provided in tabular format (at end November 2014) a list of education, training, and internship and activation schemes for recipients of a jobseeker's payment, and the number of persons attending each scheme.

It is to be noted that the number of people involved in such programmes is largely unchanged over the period 2012-2015.

These participants are not necessarily all former recipients of jobseekers’ payments; a minority of those involved may have qualified to participate because of receipt of other payments (for example, Disability Allowance or a lone parents’ payment).

Participants on these programmes may be categorised as employed, or in education/training, or engaged in an internship, depending on the nature of the specific programme involved. All are, however, excluded from the Live Register whilst participating in the programme.

ACTIVATION PROGRAMMES