Written answers
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Job Losses
11:00 pm
Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 499: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of notified redundancies made here to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27480/08]
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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The numbers of actual redundancies notified to my Department for the period 1 January to 30 June 2008 are shown in the following table.
| Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Actual Redundancies received under the Redundancy Scheme during the period, 1st January to 30th June 2008 | |||
| Industrial Group | Number of Employees | ||
| Male | Female | Total | |
| Agriculture/Forestry and Fisheries | 256 | 65 | 321 |
| Energy and Water | 43 | 9 | 52 |
| Extraction Industry (Chemical Products) | 98 | 21 | 119 |
| Metal Manufacturing and Engineering | 600 | 103 | 703 |
| Other Manufacturing | 2,631 | 1,509 | 4,140 |
| Building and Civil Engineering | 3,962 | 300 | 4,262 |
| Distributive Trades | 464 | 384 | 848 |
| Transport and Communications | 422 | 189 | 611 |
| Other Services | 2,454 | 2,565 | 5,019 |
| Banking, Finance & Insurance | 162 | 282 | 444 |
| Total | 11,092 | 5,427 | 16,519 |
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.
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