Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is her intention to have a database of all jobs available here; and the number that are currently available. [11850/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Department of Social Protection advertises vacancies notified to its employment service's job bank through its national call centre, and maintains a database of all such vacancies.

During 2011, in the region of 69,000 job opportunities were notified to the job bank (then operated by FAS) and a further 9,500 jobs have been notified in the first two months of 2012. Currently, (February 28), there are 4,500 job-offers open on the job bank.

Jobs notified to the service represent only a share of all vacancies that arise in the economy. For example, data in the European vacancy monitor published by the European Commission in January 2012 indicate that approximately 95,000 jobs were filled in Ireland in the three months April-June last year.