Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs that have been lost in 2010 to date; the number of jobs that were lost in 2009 in a tabular form by month and on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9082/10]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The number of people in employment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey or QNHS and published by the Central Statistics Office. In the third quarter of 2009, the most recent quarter for which data is available, employment decreased by 184,700 from Quarter 3 2008 to Quarter 3 2009.

Table A

The data for permanent, full-time jobs which were lost in Enterprise-agency assisted firms (IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Shannon Development) is shown in the table below, broken down to the total job losses by county. Data is compiled on an annual basis only and is displayed in Table B below.

Table B: Job losses in Enterprise Agency Assisted Firms (2009)

There were also job gains in 2009, which amounted to 13,059 permanent full-time jobs. As a result, there was a net loss in 2009 of 33,988 permanent full-time jobs supported by the enterprise development agencies. There is no exact measure of the number of jobs lost. However, the Department records the number of redundancies notified to it on a monthly basis. Over the past 13 months there have been 83,699 redundancies have been reported, as detailed in Table C below.

Table C: Actual Redundancies Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 broken down by month and by county