John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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1384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons actively engaged in farming activity in Dublin South West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38593/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The CSO’s Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of employment statistics in the State. However, although sectoral figures are available, the QNHS is not sufficiently detailed geographically to provide the number of persons actively engaged in farming activity in Dublin south west.

The CSO’s Census 2016 new Geohive Open Data site, however, is a collaboration between that body and Ordnance Survey Ireland, which maps Census of Population 2016 data across a variety of administrative spatial divisions, one of which is electoral constituency.

The data in respect of Dublin South-West indicates that 98 people stated that Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing was their main occupation in April 2016.  It should be noted that employment numbers may vary between different data sources, depending on the definition of employment used.