John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 239: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail each notification of redundancies to his Department by companies in Waterford city and county in each year from the beginning of 2002 up to 30 November, 2006; the name of the company and the number of redundancies involved in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41967/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The number of collective redundancies notified to this Department from the beginning of 2002 to 30th November 2006 for Waterford City and County was 2077. A yearly breakdown is shown in the table.

A collective redundancy occurs where the minimum number of employees employed in a company would be greater than 20 and the number of employees it is proposed to make redundant within that workforce would be at least 5 and the organisation is thereby obliged to notify the Department of the collective redundancy.

The number of actual redundancies that occurred in Waterford City and County from the beginning of 2002 up to 30th November 2006 amounts to 3801. A yearly breakdown is in the table.

It would be impractical to compile a list of individual names of the companies and the number of redundancies involved. If the Deputy wishes to put forward the names of specific companies, the relevant information will be provided.