Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014

10:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

I do not have the exact figure to hand. We can certainly get it. The IDA tends to publish the figures early in the new year in respect of the previous year. We will be able to get it at that stage. What we know, however, is that the increase in employment is very broad based. The Central Statistics Office reports on 14 sectors in the quarterly national household survey. In the latest quarter, Q3, 12 of those sectors recorded employment increases, many of them related to domestic demand type sectors. I would say a fairly substantial portion of the increase is in the domestic economy as opposed to the multinational sector.