Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 399: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of notices of collective redundancy his Department has received in each year from 1997 to date in 2006; the number of persons included in these collective redundancy notices for each year; the number of these persons for each year who received statutory redundancy payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20955/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The number of notices of collective redundancies notified to the Department under the Protection of Employment Act, 1977 (as amended) and the number of employees affected were as follows.

It is not possible to provide figures on the number of these persons for each year who received statutory redundancy payments as collective redundancy notifications are made under the Protection of Employment Act, 1977 (as amended) rather than under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2003, which makes provision for the Statutory Redundancy Payments Scheme. Collective redundancy notifications include persons with under two years service who do not qualify for statutory redundancy. The statistics produced by my office in respect of collective redundancies do not therefore differentiate between those who have less than two years service and those who are entitled to a statutory redundancy lump sum payment. Collective redundancy notification obligations and statutory redundancy lump sum payments are therefore provided for under separate legislation, with separate figures accordingly being compiled.