Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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87. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Irish small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, active in manufacturing, in tabular from; and the equivalent figure for the EU. [9435/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are defined as having less than 250 persons employed. In 2014, the latest year for which data is available, Ireland had 14,484 SMEs in manufacturing. The EU-28 total was 2,097,000 SMEs in manufacturing. Irish figures for 2015 will be available in June 2017.

The following table gives a breakdown of SMEs in manufacturing in each EU Member State, together with figures for micro-enterprises (less than 10 persons employed), small enterprises (10 to 49 persons employed), medium enterprises (50 to 249 persons employed), and large enterprises.

Number of Manufacturing Enterprises by Size Class and Member State, 2014