Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)
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1420. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created by companies supported by Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Authority between 2015 and to date in 2017, by county, in tabular form. [20193/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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My Department, through Enterprise Ireland (EI) provides a range of supports to help Irish companies start, grow and export.  There are now over 201,000 people employed by EI supported companies across the country, an all-time high for the Agency.  The fact that over 130,000 of those 201,000 jobs are outside of Dublin is also significant.  All regions recorded increases in employment.

Over the period of its 2014-2016 Strategy ‘Driving Enterprise, Delivering Jobs’, EI exceeded its 45,000 jobs target, and 45,592 new full time jobs were created by client companies. The Strategy has driven the greatest job creation ever achieved in any three year period by Irish companies.

EI’s new ‘Global Ambition’ strategy 2017-2020 will support enterprises across the economy, to grow into strong Irish international companies, developing world-leading products and services and exporting them all around the world. The strategy builds on the success of recent years and sets new ambitious targets for jobs growth of 60,000 and to increase exports by €5 billion per year, with two-thirds of exports going beyond the UK.

IDA Ireland reported a second, consecutive record year in 2016.  199,877 people are now employed in IDA Ireland supported client companies, up from 188,035 in 2015.  This is the highest level of employment in IDA Ireland client companies in the Agency's 68-year history.

IDA Ireland’s strategy for 2015-2019 includes a commitment to increase foreign FDI in every region outside Dublin by 30%-40%.  The Agency made good progress towards achieving this goal in 2016, with 52% of all jobs created by IDA Ireland's clients last year based outside of Dublin.  The Agency is targeting the creation of 7,000 net new jobs and 180 new investments in 2017.

Table 1below provides a breakdown of new jobs created in Enterprise Ireland supported companies by county for 2015 and 2016.

Table 2provides a breakdown of new jobs created in IDA Ireland supported companies by county for the same period.Agency job figures are collated on an annual basis only, therefore figures for 2017 will not be available until the Annual Employment Survey is released at the beginning of 2018.

Table 1: New Jobs (Permanent Full time and Other) created by Enterprise Ireland supported Companies

Table 2: New Jobs (Permanent Full time and Other) created by IDA supported Companies