Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 327: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons made redundant during each year from 2002 to 2005 and to the end of April 2006 who did not qualify for statutory redundancy payments due to not having at least two years service in an employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19443/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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There is no legal requirement under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2003 for employers to notify the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment of redundancies where the employees have less than the minimum required service of two years for entitlement to a statutory redundancy lump sum payment. Consequently, there are no official figures for redundancies in this category of under two years' service.

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 328: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average amount it costs to make a worker redundant here. [19469/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Statutory redundancy is based on two weeks pay per year of service plus one extra weeks pay, subject to a maximum gross wage of €600 per week.

In 2005 the total spend by employers in respect of redundancies was €229,983,333. Rebates of 60% amounting to €137,990,000 were paid from the Social Insurance Fund to employers by my Department, resulting in the total net cost to employers of €91,993,333.

In 2005, rebates were paid to employers in respect of c.20, 245 employees giving the average net cost to the employer of €4,544 per worker.