Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of money paid out in statutory redundancy payments in respect of each year from 2002 to 2008; the projected figure for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7260/09]

Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to her Department in respect of each year from 2002 to 2008 and to date in 2009; the number of projected redundancies for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7259/09]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 111 together.

I attach in Table 1 are the amount of monies paid out of the Social Insurance Fund in respect of redundancy claims for the years 2002-2008 up to and including 13 February, 2009. It should be noted that the figures provided for 2008 and to date in 2009 are provisional figures. It is not possible to project the figure for 2009 given that this will hinge on a number of variables including the number of claims received, the length of service of the claimants etc.

Table 2 sets out the number of statutory redundancies for years 2002 to 2008 and details for 2009 which are provisional figures (up to 18 February, 2009). These figures show the number of employees who actually qualified for statutory redundancy lump sum payments. They do not reflect those who lost their jobs with less than two years service in employment. While I am unable to provide a projection of the number of projected redundancies in 2009, it may be helpful to the Deputy to report that in the first almost seven weeks of this year, the level of new claims received averaged in excess of 1,500 per week.