Written answers
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Department of An Taoiseach
Industrial Production
8:00 pm
Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the industrial production in the first quarter of 2012; the same figure for this time in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27533/12]
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office's Monthly Industrial Production Inquiry provides a short term indicator of trends in the volume of Industrial production.
Final results for the first quarter of 2012 show a decrease of 2.7% on the preceding quarter (Q4 2011) and a decrease of 0.4% on the first quarter of 2011.
The information that the Deputy requested is available on the CSO website, and the table below contains the relevant information.
| Table 1 Volume Indices of ProductionBase year 2005=100 | |||
| All Industries NACE 05 - 35 Seasonally adjusted | |||
| Period | Index | % change on preceding period | Annual % change |
| 2010 | |||
| Quarter 1 | 107.7 | 11.5 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 108.4 | 0.7 | 4.8 |
| 3 | 110.7 | 2.1 | 11.2 |
| 4 | 109.6 | -1.1 | 13.5 |
| 2011 | |||
| Quarter 1 | 107.6 | -1.8 | -0.1 |
| 2 | 106.7 | -0.8 | -1.6 |
| 3 | 111.8 | 4.8 | 0.9 |
| 4 | 110.1 | -1.5 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | |||
| Quarter 1 | 107.2 | -2.7 | -0.4 |
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