Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of hiring a case worker to help social welfare applicants. [31203/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The cost of employing employment services support officers to social welfare recipients is as follows:

a) a job coach is at Executive Officer (EO) civil service grade. The cost of the annual rate of the entry point of the EO payscale is €37,544 and

b) an employment personal advisor is at Higher Executive Officer (HEO) grade. The cost of the annual rate of the entry point of the HEO payscale is €58,264.

I trust this clarifies the matter for you.

Recruitment of EOs and HEOs is carried out via large-scale recruitment competitions both internally and via PublicJobs and therefore the cost of recruiting a job coach or employment personal advisor is not available.