Finian McGrath
Question:101. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in the multinational sector and in indigenous small and medium enterprises in 2013. [27016/13]
View answerTuesday, 11 June 2013
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The breakdowns requested by the Deputy are included in Tables 1 and 2 as follows. The year 2010 is the latest reference year for which final data is available. The source of the estimates for Table 1 is the Business in Ireland Report 2010, as published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
The enterprise figures quoted in this answer relate to the private business economy, which includes Industry, Construction and Services in NACE Rev 2 sectors B – N (excluding 64.20 “Activities of holding companies”). Enterprises in the Public Sector, Health, Education and Agriculture are not covered.
Table 1 provides a breakdown of employment by sector of persons engaged in Ireland in foreign-owned multinationals. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of these estimates by size class of enterprise.
Table1: Persons Engaged in Ireland in Foreign-Owned Multinationals by Sector, 2010
|
Sector |
Persons Engaged |
|
Manufacturing |
79,831 |
|
Construction |
3,644 |
|
Distribution |
75,543 |
|
Services (ex Financial Sector) |
97,746 |
|
All Sectors |
256,764 |
Table 2 as follows provides employment by sector for all enterprises broken down by size class. The source of these estimates is the Business Demography series as published by the Central Statistics Office. As this information is from a different source to Table 1 above, it is not possible to directly estimate employment in indigenous enterprises. Additionally it can be noted that Table 2 does not cover all NACE Rev 2 sectors included in Table 1. Specifically, NACE Rev 2 Sectors B (Mining and Quarrying), D (Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), E (Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities) and K (Financial and insurance activities excluding activities of holding companies) are not included.
Table 2: Number of Active Enterprises and Persons Engaged by Sector and Size Class:
|
Class Size |
Active Enterprises |
Persons Engaged |
|
Micro (<10 employees) |
177,547 |
336,581 |
|
Small (10 – 49) |
14,984 |
285,439 |
|
Medium (50-549) |
2,441 |
232,498 |
|
All SME’s (<250) |
194,972 |
854,518 |
|
Large |
459 |
382,867 |
|
All Sizes |
195,431 |
1,237,385 |
It should be noted that figures provided are on a “person engaged in employment” basis and not on an employee basis. The definitions used are:
1. Persons engaged, includes employees, proprietors and family members.
2. Employees are persons who are paid a fixed wage or salary. Persons at work or temporarily absent because of illness, holidays, strike etc, are included. Persons working on a labour-only subcontract basis are excluded.
3. Proprietors and family members; included here are those proprietors (partners etc) and members of their families who work regularly in the firm and are not paid a definite wage or salary.
The Business Demography Press Release of 22 June 2012 is available at;
http://www.cso.ie/en/newsandevents/pressreleases/2012pressreleases/pressreleasebusinessdemography2010/
The Business in Ireland Release of November 2012 is available at;
http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/multisectoral/2010/businessinireland2010.pdf