Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs lost and created in each of the past four years to date under the headings of traditional and or indigenous enterprises and foreign direct investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9450/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Forfás Annual Employment Survey and the CEB Annual Employment Survey report on the jobs created and lost in the companies supported by the Enterprise Development Agencies and the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) respectively.

Details of the number of jobs created and lost in client companies of Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland in the period 2009 to 2012 are set out in Tables A and C respectively that accompany this reply.

In 2010, the CEBs recording system changed to encompass the same format used by Forfás, thereby enabling the CEBs to produce job existing, job gains and job losses figures for 2010 onwards. Information relating to job gains and losses for 2012 (preliminary figures), 2011 and 2010 is set out below in Table B accompanying this reply.

I am pleased to say that the Agencies’ End of Year Statements indicate that 2012 was a good year for job creation in Agency-supported companies. IDA client companies created 12,722 gross new full time jobs (6,750 net new jobs). The IDA client base in Ireland now employs 152,785 people, a level last recorded before the global financial crisis began in 2008. Clients of Enterprise Ireland created 12,861 gross new jobs (3,338 net new jobs – the highest net gain for Irish companies since 2006). Also in 2012, a net increase in employment of 417 was recorded in CEB-supported companies.

THE INDIGENOUS SECTOR

Table A - Jobs Created and Lost in Enterprise Ireland-Supported Companies

Table B – Jobs Created and Lost in CEB-Supported Companies

THE FDI SECTOR

Table C – Jobs Created and Lost in IDA Ireland-Supported Companies