106. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have participated in the jobbridge scheme; the age bands of the participants; the breakdown of placements by company size; the breakdown of participants by type of company, private or public and so on; the percentage of those who started a jobbridge placement that have gained employment; the percentage of those who finished a jobbridge placement that have gained employment; the percentage of these jobs that are with the company where they did their internship; if monitoring 5% of all internships is enough to avoid abuse of the scheme; the number of full time dedicated monitors that are on the scheme; the number of monitoring visits that have been conducted; the number of internships that have been ended by jobbridge monitors due to abuse of the scheme by the host or not meeting the standard agreement; if any organisations have been ruled ineligible for the scheme; the number of applications to jobbridge that have been rejected because the host organisation had recently advertised the position as a paid job; the companies which have advertised or hired the most interns; the most common reasons cited by interns who leave the programme early; the amount jobbridge cost the State including and excluding the regular welfare payments to participants; if host organisations have been successful in returning the monthly compliance information; the percentage that have not; the penalty to the host organisation for failing to do so; and if their failure has an effect on the payment to the intern. [41030/12]

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106. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have participated in the jobbridge scheme; the age bands of the participants; the breakdown of placements by company size; the breakdown of participants by type of company, private or public and so on; the percentage of those who started a jobbridge placement that have gained employment; the percentage of those who finished a jobbridge placement that have gained employment; the percentage of these jobs that are with the company where they did their internship; if monitoring 5% of all internships is enough to avoid abuse of the scheme; the number of full time dedicated monitors that are on the scheme; the number of monitoring visits that have been conducted; the number of internships that have been ended by jobbridge monitors due to abuse of the scheme by the host or not meeting the standard agreement; if any organisations have been ruled ineligible for the scheme; the number of applications to jobbridge that have been rejected because the host organisation had recently advertised the position as a paid job; the companies which have advertised or hired the most interns; the most common reasons cited by interns who leave the programme early; the amount jobbridge cost the State including and excluding the regular welfare payments to participants; if host organisations have been successful in returning the monthly compliance information; the percentage that have not; the penalty to the host organisation for failing to do so; and if their failure has an effect on the payment to the intern. [41030/12]

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