Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the most recent annual data including 2022 on the level of IDA supported jobs by county, in tabular form; the number of additional jobs created in each county since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4909/23]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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33,000 new jobs were created in FDI companies in 2022, bringing the total number of people employed in the FDI sector in Ireland to over 300,000, which represents the highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) employment level ever. The results illustrate the continued substantial growth in FDI in 2022 despite a difficult global economic environment.

Growth in regions also continued with employment growth recorded in every region of the country.  Strongest regional performance among IDA clients in 2022 was in the Mid-East region (net change 13.6%), followed by Dublin (10.8%) and the Midlands (9.7%).

The strong growth in regional investment was supported by IDA Ireland’s property programme. We know a robust property and infrastructure ecosystem to be a key differentiator in winning FDI projects.

The 2022 figures continue the pattern of sustained, robust growth in FDI investment and FDI-related employment that has been achieved over a continuous period of more than ten-years.  However, at the announcement of the mid-year results in July, IDA pointed to serious global challenges and uncertainties. It is now evident that the global economy faces serious headwinds in 2023 with the outlook dependent on the Russia-Ukraine war, inflation, monetary policy and geo-political developments.

IDA's employment data is produced on an annual basis and therefore it is not possible to provide the data sought from 27th June 2020.

The table below details the number of new IDA jobs created by county for 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the most recent annual data including 2022 on the level of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs by county, in tabular form; the number of additional jobs created in each county since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4910/23]

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The latest job figures show employment increased across all economic sectors for Enterprise Ireland  supported companies. In total, 19,660 new jobs were created in 2022 by companies assisted by EI. Total employment by companies assisted by Enterprise Ireland in 2022 was 218,178, an increase of 5% on the 2021 outturn and 68% of these jobs are outside Dublin.

Balanced regional development is being achieved in terms of both new jobs created and total employment.  More than 147,000 people outside of the Dublin region are now employed by Enterprise Ireland client companies, making an enormous contribution to local economies and communities.

The Government’s target to have a record 2.5 million people employed by 2024 has already been exceeded. Enterprise Ireland has also exceeded its own employment target for 2022. 

Enterprise Ireland surveys its’ portfolio of clients annually to collect employment data.  This survey occurs over October/November each year. It is not possible to give employment gains from a specific date, in this instance 27 June 2020.  However, employment gains from the year ended 2020, 2021 and 2022 is supplied in the table below.

*In line with Enterprise Ireland’s new strategy, a revision of the population of companies included in the Annual Employment Survey was undertaken, including companies recently acquired or those whose strategy or need to engage with Enterprise Ireland had changed. As a result, the changes to the baseline survey population reduced the total employment in Enterprise Ireland client companies and is reflected in the tables above.

Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the most recent annual data, including 2022, on the level of local enterprise office client jobs by county, in tabular form; the number of additional jobs created in each county since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4911/23]

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The Local Enterprise Offices' (LEO) most recent Annual Employment Survey for 2022 was published on 17th January.  These results show the significant role the LEOs are playing in not only creating new businesses and jobs but also in sustaining them.  LEO client companies created 7,870 new jobs in 2022 and is the third highest year of job creation by the LEOs since 2014.

The results shows that 84% of the new jobs created by LEO companies in 2022 were located outside of Dublin.  This aligns with the Government’s strategy to strengthen employment throughout Ireland and demonstrates the impact of the network in the development of our small businesses.

The net jobs gain in employment by LEO client companies is 3,447. This figure accounts for any losses from company amalgamation, transfers from LEOs to Enterprise Ireland and those that cease trading.

The Local Enterprise Office Annual Employment Survey results by county for 2022 are as follows:

The Annual Employment Survey is conducted in Q4 each year and the results are normally announced in Q1 of the following year. They are included in the LEOs Annual Impact Report which can be viewed on the LEO's Website ().

This extensive survey is only conducted at the end of the year to capture the overall gains and losses for that year and as such it would not be possible to provide figures from the specified date.

The net jobs figures for the LEOs for 2020 through to 2022 are shown in this table: