Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the gross value added in 2006 for Counties Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal. [34674/08]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The CSO does not produce estimates of Gross Value Added (GVA) at county level. I am advised that there are a number of difficulties associated with providing results at such a level of detail.

These include the fact that:

the workforce producing the GVA in a county may live in neighbouring counties;

GVA includes company profits which in many cases may be remitted abroad; and,

much data is either not sufficiently robust or is unavailable at county level.

GVA is produced at the NUTS 3 Regional level. There are 8 such regions in Ireland. 2006 data is not yet available. The following table gives the 2005 results.

The CSO does, however, publish figures on household incomes at county level. These figures allocate income to the counties in which persons reside. They include items such as social welfare benefits, but do not include company profits. The per capita household incomes for the relevant counties for the years 2000 to 2005 are provided below.