Dear Ruairi,

Dublin City Council has recently engaged with the Fás Training Authority to develop a scheme which will allow redundant apprentices the opportunity to complete a phase of their training with DCC. This pilot scheme allows for 13 apprentices to complete Phase 5 of their training.

Your constituent would need to have successfully completed Phases 1 – 4 of their apprenticeship as the DCC pilot scheme is only available at Phase 5 level. Fás are coordinating the identification of suitable candidates and to this end your constituent should contact his/her local Fás training centre to establish if they are at the appropriate level.

Kind regards,

Dave Dinnigan

Training Manager

dave.dinnigan@dublincity.ie

In July 2010, 440,000(94% sought unemployment benefit or assistance

26,000 (6%) were signing to preserve benefits

Total = 466,000

The numbers on the Live Register increased by 306,000 between September
2007 and July 2010.

Official measure of unemployment is the Quarterly National Household Survey by 150 interviewers interviewing about 39,000 households for each survey.

2007 Q1 unemployment 4.6%
2010 Q1 unemployment 12.8% = 275,000

2007 Q3 Total employment = 2,150,000
2010 Q1 Total employment = 1,858,000

This is a decline of 292,000 or 13.6% over that period in people in jobs.

2007 Q3 Part-time employment = 386,000
2010 Q1 Part-time employment = 413,000
This is an increase of 27,000 in part-time employment an a further increase of 28,000 in public sector over this period

2007 Q3 – Total Full-time employment was 1,764,000 = 1,417,000 in private sector and 347,000 in public sector 2010 Q1 Total full-time employment was 1,445,000 = 1,078,000 in private sector and 367,000 in public sector

This is a reduction of 339,000 jobs in private sector over that period and this is a 24% drop which is continuing and may now be -27%

Full-time employment dropped by – 57% in construction
- 34% in Administrative and support services
- 29% in Agriculture forestry and fishing
- 24% industry
- 18% wholesaling and retailing
Increased by + 9% in information and communication

Summary – Total employment is down 13.6% since Q3, 2007
Unemployment is up by 12.4% since Q3, 2007 Full-time private sector employment down by 24% in same period

GNP

2007 Q3 GNP was €41,987 billion
2010 Q1 GNP was €30,378 billion = this is -28%

Relatively good news from an organisation that called the economic madness in Ireland right.