Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North, Sinn Fein)
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90. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs, or if not available, the estimated number of jobs here that are supported by exports. [10814/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The exact data requested by the Deputy is not available but some estimates can be made for the industrial sector from the CSO’s Structural Business Statistics (SBS). The annual Census of Industrial Production, which is a component of SBS, is based on survey returns from a sample of about 2,000 industrial enterprises, combined with estimates for other enterprises based on Revenue data. The sample returns give an indication of whether the enterprise is involved in exporting goods.

In 2014, an estimated total of 199,200 persons worked in enterprises employing three or more persons: 103,300 of these were in SMEs and 95,900 were in large enterprises. Exporting firms accounted for 82.2% of jobs in respondent enterprises and they accounted for 73.0% in SMEs and 89.0% in large enterprises. These figures do not exactly reflect jobs directly related to export activity and they do not take account of any indirect or downstream employment.