Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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261. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of registered companies here in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32882/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Companies Registration Office (CRO) is the statutory authority for registering companies in Ireland and is the central repository of public statutory information on Irish companies.

At the end of 2012, there were 184,549 companies on the companies register, 185,181 at end 2011 and 185,608 at end 2010. These figures do not include companies in the course of liquidation, of which there were 7,938 at end 2012, 6,680 at end 2011 and 6,287 at end 2010.

Details of the number of new companies registered with the CRO in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 are set out below.