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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 6 Feb 2001

Vol. 529 No. 4

Written Answers. - Job Losses.

Bernard J. Durkan

Question:

106 Mr. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of job losses recorded in each of the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3209/01]

Notified redundancies recorded for each of the past 12 months were as follows:

2000

January

1,714

February

1,194

March

1,428

April

1,067

May

944

June

921

July

1,171

August

758

September

909

October

932

November

1,342

December

891

This amounts to a total of 13,271 redundancies for 2000. There were 1,310 notified redundancies for the month of January, 2001.
Many of the recently announced major job losses in overseas owned plants in Ireland arise from restructuring, with activities at the lower end of the value-added chain being phased out as they become uneconomic.
IDA Ireland's strategy is to encourage Irish plants of global companies to move up the value-added chain into higher skilled and better-paid jobs, thus enhancing their international competitiveness and employment. In this context also, a major part of IDA efforts is focused on embedding existing overseas-owned companies more firmly in the economy with a view to having strategically independent operations in Ireland within their corporate structures worldwide.
IDA Ireland and other state agencies are intensifying their efforts to attract replacement projects to areas affected by major job losses and to assist the development and expansion of existing industry in those areas. Every effort is being made to assist the workers affected to find alternative employment and to provide retraining, where appropriate, to enhance employment prospects.
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