Community Employment Schemes Data

Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Questions (631)

Willie O'Dea

Question:

631. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of referrals to JobPath, community employment schemes and Tús in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8230/19]

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Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service, Tús and Community Employment (CE).

The Tús initiative is a community work placement scheme providing short-term working opportunities for unemployed people. These work opportunities benefit the community and are provided by community and voluntary organisations in both urban and rural areas. There are currently 6,500 budgeted places on Tús involved in the delivery of local services.

The aim of Community Employment is to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities. Virtually all participants are engaged in some element of service support and delivery - e.g. amenities management, sports, tidy towns, childcare, etc.. There are currently 921 Community Employment schemes catering for 21,371 participants.

JobPath is a service that supports the long-term unemployed to obtain and sustain paid employment. Between its launch in July 2015 and February 2019, some 209,000 jobseekers have engaged with the service. The JobPath service is provided for jobseekers only and it's aim is to assist participants in finding sustainable full-time paid employment.

Since the first of June 2018 long term jobseekers engaged with the JobPath service can also apply for either Community Employment or Tús. This enables those people with the JobPath service to avail of a CE or Tús placement which provides valuable occupational activity and work experience. However, continued engagement with the JobPath service is a condition of opting to avail of both schemes.

Tús and Community Employment do not, nor are they intended to, provide full-time sustainable employment.

Table 1; People engaged with JobPath, Annually, by County, since its introduction in 2015

County	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019 YTD
Carlow	219	1487	1620	1450	89
Cavan	300	1419	1425	1509	90
Clare	183	1630	1689	1424	93
Cork	943	5965	6568	4641	253
Donegal	268	3312	3787	3432	197
Dublin	318	12100	16008	12928	760
Galway	596	2856	3061	2733	173
Kerry	113	2462	2665	1737	113
Kildare	373	2933	3122	1923	111
Kilkenny	198	1243	1511	1122	80
Laois	8	1419	1890	1363	89
Leitrim	4	635	698	623	26
Limerick	397	3344	3451	2771	187
Longford	497	1193	1350	1127	51
Louth	327	2930	3013	2716	147
Mayo	203	1837	2199	2052	118
Meath	136	1262	1631	1439	60
Monaghan	1	905	1086	730	33
Offaly	105	2106	1842	1528	73
Roscommon	5	496	730	698	41
Sligo	2	1023	1137	1067	64
Tipperary	171	2750	3423	2523	134
Waterford	435	2442	2553	1743	116
Westmeath	137	2286	2405	2030	132
Wexford	239	3676	3756	2125	127
Wicklow	410	1714	2060	1850	70
Total	6588	65425	74680	59284	3427

Table 2; Tús Participants, Annually, by County, since 2015

County	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019 YTD
Carlow	210	184	144	132	15
Cavan	139	125	100	120	18
Clare	170	130	111	152	14
Cork	924	747	616	612	49
Donegal	493	432	414	361	56
Dublin	1764	1716	1435	1392	119
Galway	503	446	430	432	45
Kerry	249	243	209	243	15
Kildare	277	329	228	206	20
Kilkenny	111	131	105	98	5
Laois	129	111	96	123	6
Leitrim	90	84	86	91	3
Limerick	346	315	279	273	14
Longford	108	81	102	108	6
Louth	249	200	197	201	25
Mayo	334	290	339	293	33
Meath	283	273	253	259	16
Monaghan	115	120	97	100	15
Offaly	181	174	132	160	10
Roscommon	139	148	106	87	13
Sligo	179	135	144	157	16
Tipperary	417	412	380	368	24
Waterford	364	320	315	303	36
Westmeath	139	131	106	127	1
Wexford	363	300	285	347	36
Wicklow	289	279	288	275	33
Total	8565	7856	6997	7020	643

Table 3; Community Employment Participants, Annually, by County, since 2015

County	2015	2016	2017	2018	To date 2019
Carlow	136	186	191	161	10
CAVAN	192	174	144	157	14
CLARE	283	197	197	184	13
CORK	1,052	1,016	849	788	90
DONEGAL	651	567	532	385	27
DUBLIN	2,847	2,690	2,481	2,303	185
GALWAY	672	621	509	435	39
KERRY	523	389	394	343	35
KILDARE	376	358	333	357	23
KILKENNY	255	205	235	250	28
LAOIS	183	163	127	120	7
Leitrim	66	70	76	61	1
LIMERICK	718	497	541	550	42
LONGFORD	123	97	96	100	13
LOUTH	558	492	442	346	34
MAYO	373	280	280	229	27
MEATH	225	199	180	196	17
MONAGHAN	242	213	202	177	8
OFFALY	243	226	181	180	13
ROSCOMMON	159	118	105	104	7
SLIGO	224	187	156	164	9
TIPPERARY	562	510	423	376	48
WATERFORD	497	374	407	373	36
Westmeath	280	211	254	241	15
Wexford	489	395	406	409	48
WICKLOW	267	277	243	224	22
Total	12,196	10,712	9,984	9,213	811