Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 January 2014
322. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form and year on year, the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1395/14]
View answerMy Department is a participant in the "JobBridge National Internship Scheme” providing work experience placements for interns for a 6 or 9 month period. As interns gain valuable experience which should assist them in their future careers, my Department is pleased to be able to offer these opportunities where appropriate.
I might emphasise for the Deputy that Internships do not displace any existing staff and are not used to fill vacant posts. Rather they represent an opportunity for the Department to undertake once-off or project-type work for which there exists a clear definition of objectives relevant to the duration of the internship that we would otherwise be unable to undertake. They also, of course, afford the internee the opportunity to gain the aforementioned valuable work experience. The nature of intern placements offered to date by my Department has been in areas such as company law and legal research, intellectual property and copyright report research, records management and entrepreneurship strategy projects.
The information requested by the Deputy for 2013 has been set out, as requested, in tabular format.
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Year |
Number of JobBridge Interns taken on |
|
2013 |
7 |
