Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs that have been created in County Wexford through the direct involvement of Enterprise Ireland or the IDA during the lifetime of the current Government and the previous administration. [12704/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The issue of job creation in any given location by companies supported by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland is a day-to-day matter for the agency concerned and not one in which I have a function. The Forfás annual employment survey is the indicator used to record jobs gained and lost in Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland in any one year. The survey collates data on employment at county level. The 2005 survey, which provides figures for the period 1996-2005, is now complete and will be published in the coming months.

Using the figures from the survey, indications are that the total number of full-time jobs created in client companies by Enterprise Ireland and its predecessors in County Wexford in the period 1997 to 2005 amounts to 3,173. In the case of IDA Ireland, using the figures from the Forfás employment survey for 2005, indications are that the total number of new jobs created in client companies in the period 1997 to 2005 amounts to 1,283.