Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1183 of 21 April 2021, the number of persons employed through the JobsPlus scheme; and the number of employers involved in the scheme from January 2020 to date in 2021, by month. [22088/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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JobsPlus is a subsidy paid to employers who recruit long-term unemployed people for new positions in their workplace. Employers can avail of JobsPlus when filling new positions or positions that arise as a consequence of natural turnover and they can receive a subsidy of €7,500 or €10,000 per employee. The value of the grant is dependent on the age of the new employee and their duration of unemployment, over the two-year period of employment.

Below is the number of Employers and Employees employed through the JobsPlus scheme from January 2020 to date by month. Numbers on this scheme have been impacted by COVID public health restrictions in place since March 2020.