Written answers
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Department of Agriculture and Food
Food Industry
11:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of people employed in the food industry; the extent to which numbers have fluctuated in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24980/06]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Information from the Quarterly National Household Survey supplied by the Central Statistics Office to my Department shows some fluctuation within a modest range in the numbers employed in the food and drinks sector during the period.
| Number employed '000 | Annual change % | |
| Year 2005 | 54.0 | -0.2% |
| Year 2004 | 54.1 | +2.7% |
| Year 2003 | 52.7 | -0.6% |
| Year 2002 | 53.0 | -1.3% |
| Year 2001 | 53.7 | N/a |
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