Written answers

Wednesday, 22 March 2006

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Job Losses

9:00 pm

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 173: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of private sector job losses in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 in respect of Meath, Cork city and county and Tipperary. [11213/06]

Photo of Tony KilleenTony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The statistics required by the Deputy are shown in the table. It should be noted that up to December 2004, my Department compiled statistics on the basis of redundancies notified in each year — they did not all necessarily happen.

From 2005, with the new computer system in redundancy section, statistics are compiled on the basis of the number of redundancies that actually occurred in a given year. These figures relate to redundancies where the employees had two years service or more in an employment. They do not reflect redundancies of employees who had less than two years of service. There is no differentiation made between private and public sector redundancies.

Area Notified Redundancies for the Years 2002 to 2004 Actual Redundancies for the Year 2005
Notified
2002 2003 2004 Actual Total
Cork 2,686 3,161 2,365 1,985
Meath 400 671 480 450
Tipperary 857 637 598 600
Total 3,943 4,469 3,443 3,035

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