Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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65. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs created in each of the counties in the Border region in 2018. [11250/19]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q4 2018.

Due to the methodology and sample size of the survey it is not possible to produce reliable county estimates from the LFS.

Estimates of employment however, are produced by NUTS 3 Regions.

The NUTS 3 Border region includes counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo.

The table below shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment in the NUTS 3 Border region in Q4 2017 and Q4 2018 and the annual change.

As the table shows the overall stock of persons employed at given points in time, the annual change which is calculated using these stock figures depends both on the number of jobs lost and jobs created over the period in question.

The LFS does not record whether a job is newly created.

Number of employed persons (ILO) aged 15 years and over classified by NUTS3 Border region, Q4 2017 and Q4 2018 - Annual change

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Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS), Central Statistics Office, Ireland.

Data may be subject to future revision.

Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change.

Reference period: Q4 Oct-Dec.