Employment Schemes.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 June 2004

Thursday, 17 June 2004

Questions (25)

Seán Crowe

Question:

23 Mr. Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed on JI schemes in each of the past three years; and the numbers expected to be employed such schemes in the coming year. [17947/04]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Mr. Fahey)

The participation rates in respect of job initiative participants are as follows:

	Yearly Average	At End of Year
2001	2,793	2,762
2002	2,663	2,525
2003	2,391	2,207

FÁS estimate that there will be an average participation rate of 2,100 on the programme in 2004 and 2,000 participants will be employed by the end of the year.

The total funding allocation for employment schemes in 2004 was fixed at €351 million. It will support up to 25,000 places across the three FÁS employment schemes: community employment, social economy and job initiative.