John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of the estimated number of full-time job vacancies in the State at present, by sector. [46455/22]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The exact information as requested by the Deputy is not available.

The Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is the official source of short-term earnings, labour estimates and job vacancies in the State. The EHECS collects aggregate quarterly data from enterprises with three or more employees in the NACE Rev 2 Industrial Sectors B–S inclusive. The quarterly EHECS estimates are published in the Earnings and Labour Costs release (ELC). The most recent final figures available are for Q1 2022.

Job Vacancies

Statistics on job vacancies, rounded to the nearest hundred, are compiled from the EHECS, which collects the number of job vacancies in an enterprise as at the last working day of the quarter. Job vacancies estimates by full-time or part-time status are not available. Due to one off recruitments by individual firms and a low number of firms reporting vacancies, the job vacancies series can be volatile and should be interpreted with caution. For further information please see the background notes on the CSO website.

Table 1 below shows the number of Job Vacancies, rounded to the nearest hundred, as at the last working day in the first quarter of 2022, by Economic Sector Nace Rev. 2.

Table 1 - No. of Job Vacancies - Economic Sectors NACE B-S -  Quarter 1 2022