Ivan Yates
Question:20 Mr. Yates asked the Minister for Finance the total number of new jobs created in each of the years between 1987 and 1990; and the total number of job losses in each of the same years.
Written Answers. - Employment Statistics.
The Comprehensive employment statistics which are currently compiled relate to total numbers at work at the reference date rather than the total number of new jobs created. The series on "notified redundancies" compiled by the Department of Labour is not a comprehensive measure of jobs lost: for example, it relates to proposed rather than actual redundancies, and is intended to cover only those prospective job losses where there may be entitlement to statutory redundancy payments. In consequence it is not possible to provide the information sought by the Deputy.
If details of job creation at a sectoral level would be helpful to the Deputy, I would refer him to the Programme for Economic and Social Progress with respect to sectoral results during the period of the Programme for National Recovery, and to the annual surveys of results in relation to manufacturing and international services undertaken by the IDA, SFADCo and Údarás na Gaeltachta.