Written answers
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Job Creation
12:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created or lost here on a monthly basis for each of the past 12 months to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28007/09]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Employment and Unemployment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey or QNHS and published by the Central Statistics Office. Employment in the last 12 months has decreased by 158,500 while unemployment has increased by 96,100 in the 12 month period (Quarter 2 2008 to Quarter 1 2009).
| QNHS Quarter | Unemployment | Change in Quarter Unemployment | Employment | Change in QuarterEmployment |
| Apr-Jun 08 | 126,700 | +17,300 | 2,112,800 | -11,300 |
| Jul-Sep 08 | 159,400 | +32,700 | 2,107,100 | -5,700 |
| Oct-Dec 08 | 169,700 | +10,300 | 2,054,600 | -52,500 |
| Jan-Mar 09 | 222,800 | +53,100 | 1,965,600 | -89,000 |
| Total | +113,400 | -158,500 |
There is no exact measure of the number of jobs lost over the last 12 months. However, my Department records the number of redundancies notified to them on a monthly basis. The following table sets out the number of redundancy notifications received for the last 12 months.
Redundancies for last 12 months
| Jul-08 | 3852 |
| Aug-08 | 3147 |
| Sep-08 | 3971 |
| Oct-08 | 4623 |
| Nov-08 | 5361 |
| Dec-08 | 3350 |
| Jan-09 | 6640 |
| Feb-09 | 6279 |
| Mar-09 | 7759 |
| Apr-09 | 7201 |
| May-09 | 8032 |
| Jun-09 | 6813 |
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