Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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171. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons that were employed by small and medium enterprises operating in the Dublin North East and Dublin North Central constituencies in each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2584/13]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office data on employment in enterprises is available from the “Business Demography” figures. Small to medium enterprises (SME’s) are defined as follows: 1, Small Enterprises, less than 50 persons engaged; 2, Medium Enterprises, between 50 and 249 persons engaged; and 3, Large Enterprises, greater than 250 persons engaged.

The breakdown requested by the Deputy is not available. A breakdown of persons employed by SME’s is only available at county level. Figures for Dublin (Table 1) and the State (Table 2) are provided in the following tables. The year 2010 is the latest reference year for which final data is available.

The enterprise figures quoted in this answer relate to the private business economy, which includes Industry, Construction and Services in NACE Rev 2 sectors B – N (excluding 64.20 “Activities of holding companies”). Enterprises in the Public Sector, Health, Education and Agriculture are not covered.

Table 1: Dublin- Number of Persons Engaged by Year (2006 - 2010):

Table 2: State - Number of Persons Engaged by Year (2006 - 2010):

The following should be noted when analysing the figures provided above. The figures provided are on a “person engaged in employment” basis and not on an employee basis. The definitions used are: 1, Persons engaged, includes employees, proprietors and family members.; 2, Employees are persons who are paid a fixed wage or salary, persons at work or temporarily absent because of illness, holidays, strike etc, are included and persons working on a labour-only subcontract basis are excluded and 3, Proprietors and family members, included here are those proprietors, partners etc. and members of their families who work regularly in the firm and are not paid a definite wage or salary.