Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the capacity of the employability service to accommodate an extra 1,000 persons. [27496/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The EmployAbility service supports people with disabilities who wish to take up employment. The budget for 2015 provides €9.6 million to run the service. The average cost of providing support through the service is €2,900 per customer, so if the service was expanded to support an additional 1,000 customers, the estimated additional annual cost would be €2.9 million.