Written answers

Thursday, 30 November 2006

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Job Losses

6:00 pm

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath, Fine Gael)
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Question 124: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and skills level of job loss in County Meath in each of the past five years; the number and skills level of replacement jobs; if he will present the information in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40972/06]

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The data in the latest Quarterly National Household Survey is published by the Central Statistics Office on a regional rather than a county basis and they show that the numbers in employment have increased in the Southern and Eastern region from 1,264,000 to 1,501,000 in the period 2000 to 2006.

The table below gives the number of job gains and job losses in Enterprise Agency Assisted Firms in Co. Meath in the past five years.

Numbers of Job gains/Job losses (full-time jobs) in Enterprise Agency assisted firms in County Meath
20012002200320042005
Job Gains507291566453660
Job losses-375-647-800-372-381
Source: Forfás Business Information System.

The table below gives the number of redundancies in County Meath from the period 2000 to 2006.

Notified Redundancies by Area Code for Period 01/01/2000 to 01/10/2006.
County2000200120022003200420052006Total
Meath1631724006714804506693005

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