Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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120. To ask the Taoiseach the amount in euro in value of both goods and services exported from Irish-based firms broken down by each country worldwide in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form; the percentage share of such exports to each country in this period as a proportion of the total share; and the total numbers of persons employed in such firms. [26410/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The official measure of Ireland's combined goods and service exports with a breakdown by country are published by the Central Statistics Office in the Statistical Yearbook or Ireland. The latest edition of the Yearbook contains data for 2015. Publication of the results for 2016 is planned for October 2017.

The table below is compiled using 2015 trade in goods exports data by country, as published monthly by the CSO, with conceptual adjustments added to bring goods exports to a change of ownership basis as required by the Balance of Payments and National Accounts standards. Service exports data are then added to give total exports from Ireland to each county of destination.

The CSO does not compile results for employment data by exporting firms.

Exports of Goods and Services 2015

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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121. To ask the Taoiseach the amount in euro in value of goods only exported from Irish-based firms broken down by each country worldwide in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form; and the percentage share of such exports to each country in this period as a proportion of the total share. [26411/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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In 2016 Ireland exported goods to 222 countries. The table below shows the top 25 trading partners covering 92% of total trade.

Table A : Exports of Goods by country 2015-2016 and percentage share of total trade.

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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122. To ask the Taoiseach the amount in euro in value of services only exported from Irish-based firms to each country worldwide in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form; and the percentage share of such exports to each country in this period as a proportion of the total share. [26412/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The official measure of Ireland's service exports are produced by the Central Statistics Office in the annual International Trade in Services publication. The latest available data with a breakdown of service export destination by country is for the year 2015.

Exports of Services 2015¹

²This category covers data supplied by respondents without a geographical breakdown.

³Subtotal for countries for which exports and imports are less than €10m.

*Suppressed for confidentiality reasons but included in world total.

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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123. To ask the Taoiseach the number of small and medium enterprises, SMEs, that account for total exports of goods and services on a percentage basis broken down by each country worldwide in 2015 and 2016; and the number of persons employed in such SMEs. [26413/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The exact data requested by the Deputy is not available but some estimates can be made from the CSO’s Structural Business Statistics (SBS) surveys. The most recent estimates available from the SBS surveys are for reference year 2014. 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. Similarly, the Annual Services Inquiry is based on survey returns from a sample of about 8,000 service enterprises and combines this with Revenue data to give the overall estimates.

The sample returns from each of these two surveys give an indication of whether the enterprise is involved in exporting goods or services. The export estimates relate only to industrial enterprises employing 3 or more persons and to services enterprises employing 20 or more persons. The following two tables show the number of SMEs in Ireland above those size thresholds in 2014 and the estimated percentage engaged in exporting goods or services.

Table 1: Numbers of SMEs in Industry and Services, 2014

Table 2: Estimated percentage of SMEs in Industry and Services engaged in exporting (based on respondent sample returns), 2014

Some information on the destination of exports is collected in the Census of Industrial Production, but not in the Annual Services Inquiry. This information indicates that an estimated 49% of exports by industrial SMEs as measured by the Census of Industrial Production (comprises predominantly goods data with some Industrial services data) are to the UK, 29% to the Eurozone, 7% to the rest of the EU, 7% to the USA and 8% to the rest of the world.

More detailed information on enterprises engaged in exporting goods or services can be compiled from the Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) and Service Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (STEC) datasets. These datasets are derived from the relevant goods and service export statistics. The CSO plans to publish the statistics based on the TEC dataset by the end of 2017.