WRC Social and Economic Consultants Ltd. are contracted by the Department to provide certain administrative and technical support services to programmes funded by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in Ireland. The consultants have prepared a report for the Department which provides certain management information on the implementation of the three ongoing EGF co-financed programmes in support of a specific cohort of almost 9,000 redundant construction workers. The report will be publicly available in the next few days on the Department's dedicated EGF website www.egf.ie. A copy of the report will be issued to the Deputy for his information by the Department.
The WRC report specifically covers the period from the issue of the notification letters outlining additional EGF services on 19 December 2011 and the 27th January 2012. The letters were issued to 8,779 redundant workers who are deemed to be eligible under the relevant EGF programmes and who have a home address in this jurisdiction. Based on data supplied to date by relevant service providers, the Department estimates that at least 4,500 EGF related interventions had been commenced in the areas of guidance, training and third level education for this particular cohort of redundant construction workers prior to the period covered by the WRC report.
Relevant management information on the delivery and uptake of EGF services and interventions will continue to be collated on behalf of the Department over the remaining period of the three EGF construction programmes to 9 June 2012.
