Coolock manpower office vacancies
The office had 15,376 people registered and reported 1,131 vacancies notified and 1,352 filled over six months; it did not track vacancy figures by age. Brady questioned the office’s effectiveness and employer engagement, and the Minister undertook to ask the service whether more could be done.
asked the Minister for Labour (a) the number of persons registered for employment at the National Manpower Office, Northside, Dublin; (b) the number of vacancies notified and filled from that office during the last six months; and (c) the number of vacancies notified and filled for persons in the age group 18-21.
Comment on this
: At the end of January 1983, there were 15,376 persons, including job changers, registered for employment with the Northside (Coolock) National Manpower Office. In the six months to the end of January 1983, 1,131 vacancies were notified to the Coolock office and 1,352 vacancies were filled by the office.
Records of vacancies notified and filled are not kept on an age basis and it is not therefore possible to give the numbers asked for in the 18-21 age group. However, in addition to the placements already mentioned, the Coolock office placed 71 persons on AnCO community youth training programmes and 199 young people under the work experience programme during the period in question. The majority of these placements are of persons in the 18-21 age group.
Comment on this
: In view of the very serious numbers of unemployed in that area, 15,000 plus, and considering that a little over 1,000 vacancies have been notified to the Coolock office and a similar number have obtained employment, is the Minister satisfied that the Coolock office is reaching its full potential and if the employers on the north side of the city are fully conscious of the need to get in touch with the Manpower Service when employment arises?
Comment on this
: I have no criticism to make of the operation of the Coolock office. The numbers mentioned in my reply are serious and I shall communicate with the Manpower office to see if anything extra can be done in that area.
Comment on this
: The Minister obviously agrees that the unemployment situation is very serious and I hope he will take steps to see if something can be done to improve the situation so far as the Manpower Service is concerned.