Jobs Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 January 2013

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Questions (170)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

170. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will detail for each year, the number of jobs lost and the number of jobs created in the general private sector, domestic economy, foreign owned multinational corporations, and the public sector since 2007. [2438/13]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (Deputy Paul Kehoe)

The detailed exact information requested by the Deputy is not available.

However, the following Job Churn statistics as published on the CSO databank give estimates of job creation and job loss in the business economy.

Table 1 Job creation and job destruction figures for the business economy 2007 -2010

Business economy excluding activities of holding companies	2007	2008	2009	2010
(NACE Rev. 2 Sectors B to N, excluding code 642)
Job creation (Number)	375,167	217,819	168,725	184,176
Job destruction (Number)	228,356	349,745	511,855	290,785

Reference period: 1st January 2007 - 31st December 2010

Source: Job Churn statistics, Central Statistics Office.