Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 25 Oct 1994

Vol. 446 No. 3

Written Answers. - FÁS Schemes.

Eric J. Byrne

Question:

188 Mr. E. Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment, in respect of January for each year from 1985 to 1994, or for each year since commencing, the number of persons engaged under FÁS job training schemes, FÁS training courses, FÁS apprenticeships, community employment, community employment development schemes, social employment schemes, TEAMWORK, FÁS community training workshops, travellers training centres, alternance return to work courses and community training programmes. [1954/94]

Minister for Enterprise and Employment (Mr. Quinn)

All of the information sought by the Deputy is not available in the format requested. Table 1 as follows sets out the throughput figures (i.e. numbers leaving) for those programmes in operation in the years 1985-1987; table 2 sets out the number of participants on these programmes and additional programmes in January of 1988 and each subsequent year.

TABLE 1.

Throughput (i.e. numbers leaving) for FÁS training programmes and certain employment schemes over the period 1985-1987.

Year	Apprentice- ship	Community Training Workshops	Travellers Training Centres	Community Training Programmes	Alternance	Social Employment Scheme/ Teamwork	Other
1985	2,494	3,279	525	8,018	1,919	8,475	22,714
1986	2,190	2,565	667	7,403	3,608	7,900	21,052
1987	2,225	2,956	690	6,310	2,009	9,800	19,703

TABLE 2.

Numbers on FÁS training programmes and certain employment schemes in January of each of the years, 1988-1994.

Year (Jan.)	Job Training Scheme (intro- duced in 1992)	Appren- ticeship	Com- munity Training Work- shops	Travellers Training Centres	Com munity Training Pro- grammes	Alter- nance	SES/ CEDP/* Teamwork	Other Training
1988	—	1,784	1,777	589	3,971	1,440	12,809(1)	7,521
1989	—	1,811	1,742	515	2,764	736	9,970(2)	7,960
1990	—	1,895	1,977	638	3,406	1,439	11,316(3)	8,469
1991	—	2,021	1,917	579	2,871	587	12,610(4)	7,015
1992	15	1,920	1,857	612	3,413	890	13,692(5)	7,045
1993	381	1,846	1,761	567	2,374	474	16,146(6)	7,236
1994	1,849	1,424	1,798	606	3,028	402	21,866(7)	7,148

(1) Social Employment Scheme (SES): 11,320; Teamwork 1,489.

(2) SES 9,302; Teamwork 668.

(3) SES 9,893; Teamwork 1,423.

(4) SES 11,852; Teamwork 758.

(5) SES 12,344; Teamwork 1,348.

(6) SES 15,558; Teamwork 588.

(7) SES 15,598; CEDP 5,383; Teamwork 885.

* SES = Social Employment Scheme; CEDP = Community Employment Development Programme (introduced late 1992 in the 12Programme for Economic and Social Progress areas). These programmes and Teamwork were replaced by Community Employment which was launched in April, 1994.