Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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743. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of Enterprise Ireland companies per county that have an unlimited structure, in tabular form; the total number of supported jobs of such companies per county at 31 December 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4006/17]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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744. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of unlimited companies per county registered with the Companies Registration Office at 31 December 2016, in tabular form; the total number of supported jobs of such companies per county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4007/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 743 and 744 together.

On 31 December 2016, there were 206,868 companies on the register of the Companies Registration Office (CRO). 4,555 of these companies are individually incorporated as unlimited companies.  Data on employee numbers is not available on the CRO register.

I am informed that of the 5,000 Enterprise Ireland (EI) client companies, 310 are unlimited companies employing 36,976 people. It should be noted that a large number of the 310 unlimited companies are individual companies within wider group structures. The number of distinct companies that have an unlimited structure and that are EI clients would be approximately 160 unlimited companies.

It should also be noted that my Department’s Employment Survey on EI supported jobs is conducted on a plant/location basis rather than a company basis. The total number of plants owned by the 310 unlimited companies was 350, as some companies have several plants across the country.

Information on the total number of companies on the CRO register by county, the total number of companies that are registered as unlimited by county, the number of unlimited plants and jobs by county supported by EI is set out in the following table.

** Source - EI

***Note: Where there are less than four plants in any county they have been amalgamated for reasons of commercial sensitivity.