Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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1176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to the local employment service in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [19845/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Local Employment Services (LES) provide a one-to-one employment assistance and advice service primarily for the long-term unemployed.

The number of persons who commenced engagement, that is the total number of new registrations who attended, with the local employment service in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 is displayed in the table below.

It should be noted that, due to public health restrictions, referrals to all contracted public employment services including the LES were suspended on three separate occasions during 2020 (March, October and December). Referrals for 2021 commenced in early March.