Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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119. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of redundancies registered in each month between October 2019 and October 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40509/20]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Section 12 of the Protection of Employment Act 1977 provides that employers proposing a collective redundancy must notify the Minister of the proposed collective redundancy.  The Department monitors that the legislative requirements for consultation and notification of potential redundancies to the Minister are complied with.

Information on collective redundancy notifications does not reflect the total number of actual redundancies that take place across the workforce.  Collective redundancies arise where, during any period of 30 consecutive days, the employees being made redundant are:

- 5 employees where 21-49  are employed,

- 10 employees where 50-99  are employed,

- 10% of the employees where 100-299 are employed,

- 30 employees where 300 or more are employed.

Other redundancies outside of these parameters are not required to be notified to the Minister. Also, not all proposed redundancies result in actual redundancies, as employers negotiate with their work force to restructure the business and find alternative solutions during the 30-day consultation period.

The data in relation to collective redundancy notifications from October 2019 to October 2020 as requested, is set out in the following table.