Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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141. To ask the Taoiseach the number of new businesses that were established in 2013; if this represents an increase from the figure in 2012; the number of jobs these businesses created; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4193/14]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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143. To ask the Taoiseach the net number of jobs that were created in the creative services sector during 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4201/14]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 143 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is not available for 2012 or for 2013. Data for 2012 is not yet available as it is dependent on the receipt of administrative data which are filed in 2013 but are not fully available to the CSO until March 2014. The latest CSO Business Demography returns for 2011 were released on 25 July 2013. The primary purpose of Business Demography is to provide estimates of numbers of enterprises and numbers of persons engaged. The data for Business Demography is based on the CSO Central Business Register. The Business Register is a register of all enterprises that are active in the State. There is no lower size limit, but for practical reasons, Business Demography data is based on enterprises that are registered with the Revenue Commissioners. The first reference year covered is 2006.

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”). The Deputy has requested data on the "creative services sector". Data is not collected for this classification. Data is collected for the following sectors, which would include the general services sector.

B - Mining and quarrying

C - Manufacturing

D - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

E - Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

F - Construction

G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles

H - Transportation and storage

I - Accommodation and food service activities

J - Information and communication

K* - Financial and insurance activities

L - Real estate activities

M - Professional, scientific and technical activities

N - Administrative and support service activities

*NACE code 64.20 Activities of holding companies is excluded from sector K

Table 1 provides a breakdown of the number of enterprise births and the number of persons engaged in these enterprises for the period 2006 – 2011. In 2011 there were 11,847 new enterprise births. This was a 5.43% increase from 2010. There were 10,700 persons engaged in new enterprises in 2011.

Table 1: Total number of enterprise births and total number of persons engaged in enterprise births in Ireland in Nace Rev 2 sectors B - N, 2006-2011

It should be noted that 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. Persons working on a labour-only subcontract basis are excluded.

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.

The Business Demography Press Release of 25 July 2013 is available at;

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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142. To ask the Taoiseach the net number of jobs that were created in the construction sector during 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4199/14]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office 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 are only available for the years 2006 - 2011.

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 the 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 below shows the level of job creation and destruction in the construction sector each year from 2006 to 2011. A positive figure for net job losses indicates more jobs were destroyed than created relative to the previous year.

Table 1 – Net job losses for the Construction sector, 2006 – 2011