Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Budget 2015: Department of Finance

4:05 pm

Mr. John McCarthy:

Those figures are not seasonally adjusted. The more appropriate figures would be the seasonally adjusted ones. If one is looking at unadjusted figures, the more appropriate metric is to compare year-on-year. In the first half of this year, the level of employment was up by 2% relative to last year. In terms of actual numbers of jobs, Ms Weymes might help me out there.