Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per jobs created, by Enterprise Ireland for each county, in each year since 2007. [54145/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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As part of the Forfás Annual Employment Survey, the overall cost per job is calculated each year by reference to the cost of jobs created in companies supported by the Enterprise Development agencies, during and sustained to the end of a seven-year period. The accepted accounting measure for cost per job is ‘Cost per job sustained’. This is calculated by taking into account all direct agency expenditure on all agency client companies in a seven-year period. Only jobs created during, and sustained at the end of each seven-year period, are represented in the calculations. The cost per job calculation takes the total grants paid to companies to undertake development projects, at both start-up and expansion stages, and the new jobs that arise from these projects. Forfás does not calculate the ‘Cost per job Sustained’ on a county basis.

The accompanying table provides information on Enterprise Ireland’s Cost per Job Sustained from 2007-2011. The figure for 2012 will not be available until 2013.

Enterprise Ireland Cost Per Job Sustained

Note: Cost Per Job Sustained is as per EI 2011 Annual Report – calculated taking into account all agency expenditure on all firms in the period. Only jobs created during and sustained at the end of each seven-year period are credited in the calculations.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per jobs created, by the Industrial Development Agency, for each county, in each year since 2007. [54146/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland has informed me that it does not compile statistics on the cost per job created on a county by county basis. The metric used to assess the cost effectiveness of its grant programmes is the cost per job sustained. This measures the level of first time jobs created during a seven year period which are existing at the end of that period against IDA Ireland grants paid during the same seven year period, converted to constant prices using deflators. Grant payments net of grant refunds under all grant programmes to all companies are used in the calculation.

The tabular statement, which has been extracted from IDA Ireland’s 2011 Annual Report and Accounts, provides details of the cost per job sustained in the period 2001 to 2011 at constant 2011 prices.

IDA Ireland Cost per Job Sustained (Constant 2011 prices)