Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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144. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the total number of jobs created and lost in County Limerick in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48526/14]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q3 2014. Estimates of employment are produced by NUTS 3 Regions. The NUTS 3 Mid-West region includes Clare, Limerick City, Limerick County and North Tipperary. Due to methodology and sample size it is not possible to produce reliable Limerick City estimates from the QNHS.

Table 1a below shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment classified by NUTS3 Mid-West region in Q3 of each year from 2011 to 2014.

Table 1b shows the annual change in the numbers of persons aged 15 years and over in employment classified by NUTS3 Mid-West region in Q3 of each year from 2011 to 2014.

As Table 1a shows the overall stock of persons employed at given points in time, the annual changes which are calculated using these stock figures depend both on the number of jobs lost and jobs created over the period in question.

The QNHS does not record whether a job is newly created.

Table 1a Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NUTS3 Mid-West region, Q3 2011 - Q3 2014

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