Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach

2:30 pm

Mr. Martin Fraser:

I do not have a number for the Deputy. I would say it is probably pretty flat and that there have been some gains, which have been mentioned, and there have been some losses. My sense is it is pretty flat. I do not think that is actually a bad performance by the sector given the scale of the carnage internationally and the problems in our own economy but I would say it is flat and certainly much of the work we are doing is to try to get new jobs and find new ways to create jobs in this sector and in other sectors. I do not have a precise number but I will try to get it for the Deputy. My sense of it would be that it is flat.