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(Limerick East) and Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Labour his Department's estimate for the number of redundancies not notified to his Department for each month of 1988 or for each of the last 12 months for which estimates have been made.
226.
(Limerick East)and Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Labour the total number of redundancies notified to his Department for each month of 1988 or for each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
I propose to take Question Nos. 225 and 226 together. The numbers of proposed redundancies notified to my Department under the Redundancy Payments Acts for the year 1988, broken down for each month, were as follows:
|
1988 |
Manufacturing |
Services |
Total |
|
January |
886 |
1,605 |
2,491 |
|
February |
990 |
1,644 |
2,634 |
|
March |
1,151 |
1,176 |
2,327 |
|
April |
797 |
953 |
1,750 |
|
May |
763 |
1,044 |
1,807 |
|
June |
911 |
956 |
1,867 |
|
July |
777 |
977 |
1,754 |
|
August |
802 |
831 |
1,633 |
|
September |
661 |
1,124 |
1,785 |
|
October |
748 |
797 |
1,545 |
|
November |
610 |
1,297 |
1,907 |
|
December |
649 |
888 |
1,537 |
|
Total |
9,745 |
13,292 |
23,037 |
The foregoing figures relate to notifications of proposed redundancies received in my Department during the year, not to actual redundancies. An examination recently carried out by my Department in respect of a three year period showed that approximately 7 per cent of notifications of proposed redundancies are not subsequently implemented. On this basis, the number of actual redundancies qualified under the Redundancy Payment Acts during 1988 would be slightly over 21,400.
I do not have any information in respect of non-notifiable redundancies i.e those who do not come within the scope of the Redundancy Payments Acts.
