Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of business startups on an annual basis from 1992 to 2011. [41523/12]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the total number of business closures on an annual basis from 1992 to 2011. [41524/12]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 90 and 91 together.

The information sought by the Deputy is not available through the CSO for all of the years requested. However, the latest CSO Business Demography returns for 2010 were released on 22 June 2012 and the tables below provide data on business start ups and closures.

The terms used in this release are "enterprise birth" which refers to a new business start up, and "enterprise death", which is a business closure.

The CSO identifies enterprise births and deaths by using available economic indicators from administrative data (Revenue Trading returns in Corporate, Income, Employment and VAT activity). Data for 2011 is not yet available as it is dependent on the receipt of administrative data which are not filed until 2012 and are not fully available to CSO until 2013. Similarly, data for years prior to 2006 are not available as the related administrative data are unavailable.

The CSO Business Demography Statistics covers the whole business economy as classified by the standard European classification of economic activity i.e. NACE Rev2 B-N excluding activities of holding companies; K 64.20.

Table A contains the relevant data concerning enterprise births for 2006-2010 inclusive.

Table A: Enterprise Births for 2006-2010 inclusive.

Regarding enterprise deaths, the Deputy should be aware that two types of data are available. Preliminary deaths are available for the years 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, while final deaths are available for 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Preliminary deaths are those enterprises that are active during the reference year, but not in the subsequent year. Final deaths are those active in the reference year that are not active in either of the two subsequent years.

Preliminary deaths for 2010 require the full population of active enterprises for 2011, which is available in March 2013, so the 2010 preliminary deaths will be published in June 2013.

Tables B and C set out the relevant enterprise deaths data.

Table B: Preliminary Enterprise Deaths for 2006-2009 inclusive.

Table C: Final Enterprise Deaths for 2006-2008 inclusive.

The Business Demography 2012 Press Release of 22 June 2012 is available at;

http://www.cso.ie/en/newsandevents/pressreleases/2012pressreleases/pressreleasebusinessdemography2010/