Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals to each job club by location in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [31644/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Job Clubs provide a service to assist jobseekers to enter / re-enter employment through the provision of CV preparation and formal workshops. Please note that due to public health restrictions, referrals to all contracted public employment services including Job Clubs were suspended on three separate occasions during 2020 (March, October and December). Referrals for 2021 commenced in early March. The number of customers referred by my Department to the Job Club services as well as the attendance figures for these for the years 2019, 2020, up to and including April 2021 are as follows: