Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to her Department up to the end of November 2008; the way this compares with the same period in each year since 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44890/08]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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The following table of figures shows the actual number of employees who qualified for statutory redundancy lump sum payments on a year by year basis from January 2002 to end November 2008. This does not reflect those who lost their jobs having less than two years service in an employment, as this does not qualify for payment under the Redundancy Acts.

The increase in redundancies reflected in 2007 and, more particularly in the current year to date, indicate the considerable downturn being experienced in all of the major employment sectors of the economy and, in particular, in the construction sector. My Department will continue to carefully monitor the trends in the level of redundancies.