Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average cost of each job created by Enterprise Ireland, the Industrial Development Authority and the county enterprise boards in 2006, 2007 and 2008. [7323/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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In relation to Enterprise Ireland, the agency calculates the cost per job sustained by taking into account all of its expenditure in relation to all of its clients. Only jobs created and sustained to the end of each seven-year period are taken into account in the calculations. For the period 2000 to 2006, the figure was €3,907 and for the period 2001 to 2007, the figure was €6,111. The figure for 2002 to 2008 will be available later in the year and will be published in the agency's 2008 Annual Report. The same system is used by IDA Ireland. The figure for 2000 to 2006 was €13,097 and the 2001 to 2007 figure was €12,577.

A different system is used by the City and County Enterprise Boards ( CEBs). The estimated overall average cost per net job created in CEB assisted companies since the inception of the CEBs in 1993 to end 2006 was €5,413. The corresponding figure for the period 1993 to end 2007 was €5,486 and, for the period 1993 to end 2008, the figure was €5,949.