Written answers

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Department of An Taoiseach

Job Statistics

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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170. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail for each year, the number of jobs lost and the number of jobs created in the general private sector, domestic economy, foreign owned multinational corporations, and the public sector since 2007. [2438/13]

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The detailed exact information requested by the Deputy is not available.

However, the following Job Churn statistics as published on the CSO databank give estimates of job creation and job loss in the business economy.

Table 1 Job creation and job destruction figures for the business economy 2007 -2010

Business economy excluding activities of holding companies2007200820092010
(NACE Rev. 2 Sectors B to N, excluding code 642)
Job creation (Number)375,167217,819168,725184,176
Job destruction (Number)228,356349,745511,855290,785

Reference period: 1st January 2007 - 31st December 2010

Source: Job Churn statistics, Central Statistics Office.

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