Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 30 Jan 1990

Vol. 394 No. 8

Written Answers. - Redundancy Statistics.

Jim Mitchell

Question:

234 Mr. J. Mitchell and Mr. Noonan(Limerick East) asked the Minister for Labour his Department's estimate for the number of redundancies not notified to his Department for each month of 1989 or for each of the last 12 months for which estimates have been made.

Jim Mitchell

Question:

235 Mr. J. Mitchell and Mr. Noonan(Limerick East) asked the Minister for Labour the total number of redundancies notified to his Department for each month of 1989 or for each of the last 12 months for which estimates have been made.

Minister for Labour (Mr. B. Ahern)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 and 235 together.

The numbers of proposed redundancies notified to my Department under the Redundancy Payments Acts for the year 1989, broken down for each month, were as follows:—

1989	Manufacturing	Service	Total
January	586	802	1,388
February	614	761	1,375
March	533	699	1,232
April	671	737	1,408
May	866	589	1,455
June	425	748	1,173
July	412	660	1,072
August	330	403	733
September	364	437	801
October	453	456	909
November	592	480	1,072
December	382	395	777
Total	6,228	7,167	13,395

The foregoing figures relate to notifications of proposed redundancies received in my Department during the year, not to actual redundancies. An examination carried out by my Department in respect of the three year period from 1985 to 1988 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 Payments Acts during 1989 would be approximately 12,460.

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.