Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Department of Social Protection

Disability Support Services Funding

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the EmployAbility services to support an extra 1,000 persons in tabular form. [11502/16]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The EmployAbility service is a national employment service dedicated to improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities who wish to take up employment. The budget for 2016 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.

Average cost per customerCost per 1,000 Customers
€2,900€2.9 million

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

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