Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons employed directly and indirectly in the agrifood industry based on the latest data to date in 2017. [30776/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The CSO published four Quarterly National Household Surveys (QNHS) for 2016, the fourth of which was released in February 2017. These showed that employment in the agri-food sector overall, including all its component parts, averaged 173,400 throughout the year. The agri-food sector represented circa 8.6% of national employment as measured by the QNHS.