Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 July 2013
530. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a table of local employment service providers showing the number of staff they employ, the grant they receive from the State and the number of individuals they place in work. [34722/13]
View answerThe Department contracts for the provision of the local employment service (LES) with 22 local development-community companies, the details of which are set out in the following list. These organisations deliver employment services through a network of offices and outreach clinics. The LES provide services for both jobseekers who are referred to them by the department for activation supports and those who are most distant from the labour market e.g. people who have a disability, lone parents, ex-offenders, etc. In the first six months of 2013, apart from placing 4,094 people into employment, the LES have also progressed 11,840 people into training/educational programmes.
As the Department may shortly be tendering for providers to augment the capacity of LES, I do not intend to publish figures or the payments made to individual LES contractors at this time.
Local Employment Service (LES) Providers 2013
Northside Partnership
Ballymun/Whitehall Area Partnership
Tolka Area Partnership (Dublin)
Bluebell, Inchicore, Islandbridge, Kilmainham & Rialto Co Ltd
Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership Ltd
Blanchardstown Area Partnership
Ballyfermot Chapelizod Partnership Co Ltd
South Dublin County Ltd (SDC)
Southside Partnership (Dublin)
Co Kildare Local Employment Service Network
Bray Area Partnership
Monaghan Integrated Development
Louth Leader Partnership
Mayo North East LEADER Partnership Co Teoranta
Galway City Partnership
People Action Against Unemployment Ltd (PAUL) (Limerick)
Cork City Partnership Ltd
South Kerry Development Partnership
North & East Kerry Leader Partnership Teo
Waterford Area Partnership
Waterford Leader Partnership Ltd
Wexford Local Development
