Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of local enterprise office supported jobs at 20 June 2015, 31 December 2015 and 30 June 2016, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20010/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The numbers employed in Local Enterprise Office (LEO) supported businesses stand at 32,592 overall, according to the results of the 2015 LEO annual jobs survey. A total of 7,122 new full- and part-time jobs were created in gross terms in 2015 (7,305 in 2014), details of which are set out in the following table.

The Annual Employment Survey of LEO clients is undertaken towards the end of each year. Accordingly, such data is not available for the 6-month period to 30 June 2015 or 30 Jun 2016.

Table 1: Local Enterprise Office Annual Employment Survey Results 2015

Taking account of job losses, the net number of jobs created by LEO client companies in 2015 was 3,533 (4,012 in 2014).