Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county that engaged with JobPath in each year since it began; and the number whose employment was sustained for more than 12 months in each county. [28070/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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JobPath provides the long term unemployed an employment service. This service seeks to support the long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Turas Nua Limited and Seetec Limited on behalf of my Department. 

Between July 2015 and the end of August 2020, some 276,149 jobseekers had engaged with the JobPath service. This data is presented annually on a per county basis in Table 1. below.

As of 31 August 2020, 63,419 jobseekers had commenced employment during their engagement period with JobPath. Of this number, 57,080 had commenced full-time employment and 6,339 had commenced part-time employment. Of these, almost 22,000 have sustained full time employment for a period of 52 weeks or more. Full-time employment and self-employment is defined as employment of at least thirty hours work per week. This data is presented on a per county basis in Table 2 below.

Job sustainment figures across the entire cohort will increase as more clients complete their engagement with the service and have the opportunity to reach 52 weeks in sustained full-time employment. 

Table 1

Jobseekers engaged with JobPath, annually, by county.

July 2015– End August 2020

Table 2

Jobseekers engaged with JobPath by county, those Moving to Employment and those sustaining Full Time Employment (52 weeks).

July 2015– End August 2020