Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which the manufacturing and services sectors grew in County Kildare in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62307/22]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Table 1 below shows employment in manufacturing and services in County Kildare for enterprise agency client companies, that is, clients of IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Udaras na Gaeltachta, for the years 2019-2021. 2021 is the most recently available data for all agency client companies.

Table 1: Employment, County Kildare

In the manufacturing sector employment rose by 2.4% for the year 2019 to 2020. This was followed by a subsequent increase of 2.1% from 2020 to 2021, resulting in a total increase of 4.5% for the 3 years from 2019 to 2021.

In the Services sector employment decreased by 8.9% from 2019 to 2020. In 2020 to 2021, the sector increased by 10.2%, resulting in an overall increase from the years 2019 to 2021 of 0.4%.