Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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115. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual number of registered businesses here for the period 2008 to date in 2014. [37497/14]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is not available for 2013 or for 2014. Data for 2013 is not yet available as it is dependent on the receipt of administrative data which are filed in 2014 but are not fully available to the CSO until March 2015. The latest CSO Business Demography returns for 2012 were released on 18 June 2014.

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”). Data is collected for the following sectors.

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 companiesis excluded from sector K

Table 1: Total number of active enterprises in Ireland in Nace Rev 2 sectors B - N, 2008-2012