Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 January 2021
4. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in the foreign direct investment, FDI, multinational sector from 1990 to 2020 or the years for which the earliest and latest such data is available by services and manufacturing within that sector; and the percentage that each constitutes of total FDI multinational employment and the private sector in tabular form. [2607/21]
View answerThe exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The following table sets out the numbers of persons engaged in Irish-owned and foreign-owned enterprises in manufacturing for the years 2001 to 2018, and in services for 2008 to 2018, i.e. the years for which a breakdown between Irish-owned and foreign-owned is available for all size categories. The figures on manufacturing are taken from the Census of Industrial Production, excluding the mining, quarrying, electricity, gas, water and waste sectors. The services figures cover the sectors measured by the Annual Services Inquiry.
