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- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains in companies that are supported by Enterprise Ireland. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. Figures for 2008 will not be available until early 2009. The numbers of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland supported companies in Co Roscommon in each year of the ten year period 1998-2007 are shown on the...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains in companies that are supported by Enterprise Ireland. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. Figures for 2008 will not be available until early 2009. The numbers of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland supported companies in Co Leitrim in each year of the ten year period 1998-2007 are shown on the...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Employment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey or QNHS and published by the CSO. The latest release provides data for Quarter 3, June-August 2008 which indicates that there are 2,120,800 in employment. This reflects a decrease in employment in the year of 25,200 or 1.2%. The drop in employment, while regrettable, must be seen in the light of the unprecedented growth in...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Given the current employment and training challenges facing this country, my intention is that FÃS concentrate on its core mission of providing high quality training and employment services relevant to the needs of the labour market. Specifically, this means addressing the situation affecting redundant apprentices, training for the unemployed, providing supports to people with disabilities,...
- Written Answers — Manufacturing and Services Sectors: Manufacturing and Services Sectors (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Irish economy is now one of the most globalised in the world. As a consequence, the uncertainty created by the current international financial crisis has had a significant impact on our economy. Our comparative advantage will increasingly lie in the production of knowledge-intensive goods and services. With that in mind, a range of policies are being pursued to enhance competitiveness...
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Unemployment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey or QNHS and published by the Central Statistics Office. The numbers unemployed are not broken down on a sectoral basis. However, data on redundancies is available by sector. Employment/unemployment fluctuations and redundancy data for the years 2004 to 2008 are set out in the following table. The data above reflect the...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Employment data in respect of agency assisted companies are collated on an annual basis and as such it is not possible to supply figures in respect of jobs created to date for 2008. The table below sets out the number of jobs created in enterprise agency assisted firms (IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and Shannon Development) broken down by sector for the year 2007. Over the last number of...
- Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 157 and 158 together. Ireland is no longer a low cost economy and therefore we must seek to develop economic competencies higher up the value chain. In that regard, we continue to work to maintain and enhance our framework competitive conditions, and promote new areas of competitive advantage. While the economic environment is more challenging than we have...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Decisions to relocate companies or elements of their supply chain are a reality of the modern globalised economic environment. Companies adjust their plant location and utilisation strategies to address matters such as accessing new markets, moving production nearer to customers, meeting firm or market specific customer relationship issues, accessing technology in addition to business...
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Employment/unemployment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey (June-August 2008), published by the CSO. It does not provide data on particular counties but only on Regions. Employment in the Mid East Region, which includes Kildare, has dropped by 3,200 and unemployment has increased by 6,600 in the year to Quarter 3 2008 (June-August). The recent increase in the numbers...
- Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: There are many factors apart from costs that influence a firm's decision to relocate, therefore, it is not possible to determine the number of jobs which may have been lost to lower cost economies. Decisions to relocate companies or elements of their supply chain are a reality of the modern globalised economic environment. Companies adjust their plant location and utilisation strategies to...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Two Industrial Development agencies under the aegis of my Department, IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, together with the local County Enterprise Board (CEB) are responsible for enterprise development in County Kildare. As recently as last Friday, I was in Maynooth for the formal launch of Sentenial, an Enterprise Ireland client company. This company has grown from some 30 people in a...
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: That is hardly inflationary.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Not unless people have taken up diving.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: What is Deputy Varadkar getting me for Christmas?
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Sorry about that.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Comrade?
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Deputy McHugh uses a different term at home.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I will be expecting some.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Tairgim leasú a 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Ãireann" and substitute the following: commends the Government on the prudent management of the economy in the face of difficult domestic and international trading conditions; welcomes the continued job creation and confidence expressed in our economy by business investors and the number of recent investment decisions taken across a range...