Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that the Action Plan for Jobs 2013 quotes that the air transport industry directly employs 26,000 persons, if he will provide details of the levels of employment in each sector of the air transport industry, the geographic spread of these jobs and the number employed in each airport. [13655/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Action Plan for Jobs 2013 refers to a report by Oxford Economics which quotes an estimate of 26,000 directly employed in the air transport industry in Ireland. That report provides a limited breakdown of this figure stating that airlines registered in Ireland directly employ 10,000 people and that aviation ground-based infrastructure employs 16,000 people. (The report categorises ground-based infrastructure as including facilities serving passengers such as baggage handling, ticketing, retail and catering, air navigation, etc).

In 2012 the number of people employed directly at the three State airports totalled 2,414 full-time equivalents.

The Oxford Economics report can be accessed on