Nearly 230 people have taken up full-time employment directoly after they had taken part in a Job-Bridge placement in Clare.
However, figures released to the Dáil show that over 800 people have taken up one of these placements since the scheme was introduced in July 2011.
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People who take part in Job-Bridge are given an extra fifty euro per week on top of their social welfare entitlement for nine months while they work with a company and the National Youth Council recently said the program needed to be reviewed.
44% of JobBridge interns here haven't finished their placements, but Junior Minister at the Department of Social Protection Kevin Humphreys feels that's a positive because many of those, he believes, are being offered work.
