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National Internship Scheme Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 30 January 2014

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Questions (104, 105)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

104. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of JobBridge internships that have been commenced in each year since the introduction of the scheme; of these figures the number of persons who have completed internships that resulted in the participant achieving employment with the scheme operator; the number of participants who completed their internships and did not enter employment at the end; the number of participants who opted to drop out from their internship prematurely and of those, the number who entered employment; the number who left the State; the number who indicated that they could not financially sustain themselves enough to continue the internship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4755/14]

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Catherine Murphy

Question:

105. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants who completed a JobBridge internship scheme that obtained employment with their scheme operator; the number that obtained employment with another employer; the number of each category that remained in employment three months after the completion of their JobBridge scheme, six months after the completion and one year after completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4763/14]

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Written answers

I propose to take Questions Nos. 104 and 105 together.

I have included in this reply a table representing the number of internships finished in each year since JobBridge came into operation. The data provided in the Table below indicate that 52% of internships are completed early and 48% are completed in full. I am encouraged by the findings of the independent evaluation of the scheme, carried out by Indecon, which found that 63% of early finishers immediately progressed into employment on completion of their internship.

Overall, 58% of those progressing into paid employment do so with their host organisation while 42% do so with another organisation. The Indecon evaluation report also identifies that 36% of all finishers immediately progress into paid employment at the end of their internship, increasing to 50% within 3 months of completion of the internship and increasing again to 61.4%, five months after completion of their internship.

The numbers of those finishing early to move directly into employment is evidence of the satisfactory progress of the scheme. The levels of interns emigrating is reported at less than 2% and the number of interns leaving their internship early due to cost factors is reported at just 2%.

I intend to commission another evaluation of the Scheme in late 2014 to further evaluate a range of areas including the sustainability of employment secured by interns.

Table 1 – JobBridge Internships Finished Each Year

Year

Finished early

Finished Full

Internships Ongoing

Total

2011

1727

2046

0

3773

2012

4530

5043

0

9573

2013

3633

1989

5700

11322

2014

9

1

559

569

Total

9899

9079

6259

25237

Data: 27 th January 2014.

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