Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We can address the absences with the line Departments as the officials come along. We have no problem coming back to that issue again. We note and publish that.

Correspondence No. 1743 is from the chief executive officer of IDA Ireland, providing information requested by the committee regarding the annual employment survey. We had asked for details of the annual employment survey. Obviously other schemes are done on a very specific basis through checking the numbers of people who are employed as a result of particular funded schemes operated by IDA Ireland. We asked it to outline the response rate to their surveys. Did it have a 5% or 95% response rate? The letter states that on completion of the 2017 survey the response rate stood at 94% of the total population. On the face of it, that seems like a very high response. If it had a 94% response, we can rely on the figure. We just wanted to check the veracity of the survey. On first reading, that would appear to be a good response.