Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA supported jobs created in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the target numbers for each of the years 2018 to 2021, in tabular form. [51528/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the job creation targets for Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and the local enterprise offices in each of the years 2018 to 2021, in tabular form. [51564/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created by companies supported by Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and local enterprise offices in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form. [51565/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 287, 291 and 292 together.

Yearly job creation by IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices is captured by the Annual Employment Survey (AES) conducted by my Department and published in January each year. The 2016 survey remains the most up to date and accurate source of information on Enterprise Agency job creation until the 2017 figures are published early next year.

EI, IDA Ireland and the LEOs publish their yearly targets as part of the Action Plan for Jobs (APJ) process. Through the APJ the Government has committed to creating 200,000 new jobs by 2020, with 135,000 of these to be located outside of Dublin. As part of the APJ process the Government aims to have a further 10 to 15 per cent at work in each region by 2020, with the unemployment rate of each region to be brought within one per cent of the national average.

Each of the Agencies have their own strategies targeting this ambitious levels of job creation over the coming years. Enterprise Ireland’s strategy for 2017-2020 aims to create 60,000 jobs, while sustaining existing ones, which will make an important contribution to economic growth across all regions of Ireland.

In January 2017 Enterprise Ireland published its strategy for the period 2017-2020. The strategy was developed in the context of Brexit and focuses on supporting clients to both Build Scale and Expand Reach. Despite economic and market uncertainties. Enterprise Ireland’s employment target for 2020 is to assist clients to create 60,000 new jobs by 2020 and to sustain the existing record level of jobs. Enterprise Ireland does not have targets beyond 2020.

As part of its 2015-2019 strategy IDA Ireland aims to create 80,000 new jobs and 900 new investments in the period from 2015 to 2019 – which would bring total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) employment in Ireland to 209,000. The LEO 2016 annual jobs survey results highlighted three consecutive years of local jobs growth throughout the country: with a net increase of 3,679 jobs and total direct employment among LEO client companies standing at 34,634.With a similar level of funding in 2017 and 2018 the LEOs hope to support a similar level of job creation in those years.

Through EI, IDA Ireland and the LEOs 70 new jobs are being created per day and over 50,000 new jobs have been delivered in the past two years. I am confident, on the basis of the excellent progress made to date, that total Agency supported employment will grow from 436,000 in 2016 to 470,000 by 2018.

Enterprise Ireland supports companies in every county of Ireland to start and scale, innovate and remain competitive on international markets. The contribution of Enterprise Ireland client companies to the Irish economy is very important, particularly from a regional and county perspective.

The 5,000 manufacturing and internationally traded services companies that Enterprise Ireland works with are a critical source of existing employment and job creation in every county in Ireland and are spread across a wide range of sectors. In 2016, Enterprise Ireland supported companies employed 201,108 people. In 2016 19,244 new jobs were created resulting in a net gain of 9,117 jobs across the country. When jobs supported indirectly by those companies are taken into account, Enterprise Ireland supported companies sustain over 375,000 direct and indirect jobs nationwide.

The table presents employment in Enterprise Ireland supported companies across the period 2014 to 2016.

Please note employment figures for 2017 are not available until after the Annual Employment Survey is made available at the start of 2018.

Jobs details since 2014 for IDA Ireland:

The LEO 2016 annual jobs survey results highlighted three consecutive years of local jobs growth throughout the country: with a net increase of 3,679 jobs and total direct employment among LEO client companies standing at 34,634.

In summary, through EI, IDA Ireland and the LEOs, 70 new jobs are being created per day and over 50,000 new jobs have been delivered in the past two years.