Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 757: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average cost per job of jobs created by the IDA in 2004 and 2005. [1776/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. The cost per job sustained in IDA supported companies is calculated by taking into account all IDA Ireland expenditure to all firms in the period of calculation and is calculated using data collated for the Forfás annual employment survey. Only jobs created during, and sustained to the end of, each seven-year period are credited in the calculations. The cost per job for the seven-year period to the end of 2005 is not yet available.

The table below outlines the position for each of the seven-year periods indicated.