Written answers
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Job Losses
5:00 pm
Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to his Department during 2007; the way this compares with the same period in each year from 2002 to 2006; the numbers notified to date in 2008; his views on the reported increase in the number of redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8335/08]
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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The numbers of actual redundancies notified to my Department for the years 2002-2008 are as follows:
Actual Redundancies 2002-2008 | |||||||
Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
Actual | 24,432 | 25,769 | 25,041 | 23,156 | 23,684 | 25,495 | 2,789 |
% Increase/Decrease on previous year | 51.9% | 5.5% | -2.8% | -7.5% | 2.3% | 7.5% |
These figures show the number of employees on whose behalf claims were submitted for statutory redundancy lump sum payments. They do not reflect those who lost their jobs with less than two years service in an employment. I have no control over the number of redundancies that occur at any given time.
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