Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs that have been created in Cork city and county by IDA supported companies to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52707/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland Jobs created in 2021 will not be available until the Annual Employment Survey results are published in January 2022. However, as is evidenced with IDA Ireland investment announcements in 2021, set out in the table below, a significant number of companies have located or expanded in Cork with new jobs and it is reasonable to expect that this trend will continue into the future.

As per the Annual Employment Survey 2020, there are 211 IDA client companies in the South West Region, employing 46,009 people with 194 of these companies, employing 43,856 people located in Cork.

The South-West has a significant ecosystem of well-established companies across Technology, Life Sciences, International Financial Services and Engineering & Industrial Technologies. It has also won significant investment across all of these sectors over a sustained period which has contributed significantly to employment growth and positive economic impacts on other sectors of the economy.