Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 311: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people employed in the State that work for the minimum wage as of 30 September for each of the years 2004 to 2007 inclusive in tabular readable form. [26537/07]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Specific data in the format requested by the Deputy are not available. However, since the introduction of the national minimum wage legislation in April, 2000, three surveys of firms have been carried on behalf of my Department by the Economic and Social Research Institute. The studies estimated, inter alia, how many employees were on the minimum wage.

The table below shows the number of employees on the minimum wage in private sector non agricultural firms at the time of the ESRI surveys.

It is planned to begin work on a further survey before end-2007.