Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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116. To ask the Taoiseach the number of net jobs losses in the economy for each year from 2006 to 2013. [34710/13]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Offices compiles information on jobs created and destroyed and, by deduction, jobs lost by linking P35L returns from the Revenue Commissioners with the CSO Business Register. The information relates to all employing enterprises from key sectors of the business economy as classified by the standard European classification of economic activity NACE Rev.2 B-N excluding activities of holding companies. The data is only available for the years 2006 - 2010.

Job creation for an enterprise in a given reference year is measured as the positive difference in the number of paid employees recorded with non-zero reckonable pay in the reference year compared with the previous year. Job creation in the business economy as a whole is the sum of all enterprise job creation.

Job destruction for a given reference year is measured as the negative difference in the number of paid employees recorded with non-zero reckonable pay in the reference year compared with the previous year. Job destruction in the business economy as a whole is the sum of all enterprise job destruction. It should be noted that when interpreting figures, job destruction for a particular year means that these jobs were identified in the previous year but not in reference year, but some of these jobs may have disappeared sometime during the previous year.

An estimate of net job losses can be derived by subtracting total jobs destroyed from jobs created.

Table 1 - Net job losses for the Business Economy, 2006 - 2010