Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 29 Mar 1990

Vol. 397 No. 7

Written Answers. - Redundancy Statistics.

Bernard Allen

Ceist:

70 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Labour the number of persons notified to his Department as having been made redundant by the Southern Health Board in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989; the number of positions notified to his Department as having been made redundant by Cork Corporation in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989; the number of persons notified to his Department as having been made redundant by Cork County Council in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989; the number of persons notified to his Department as having been made redundant by the Cork Harbour Commission, Cork, in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989; and the number of persons notified to his Department as having been made redundant by University College, Cork, in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989.

Minister for Labour (Mr. B. Ahern)

The numbers of redundancies notified by the organisations named to my Department in 1988 and 1989 were as follows:

Organisation	1988	1989
Southern Health Board	111	24
Cork Corporation	32	—
Cork County Council	185	11
Cork Harbour Commissioners	5	9
University College, Cork	—	—

These figures relate to notifications of proposed redundancies under the Redundancy Payments Acts and not to actual redundancies. They do not, therefore, include certain categories of employees which do not come within the scope of the Redundancy Payments Acts, employees with less than two years' eligible service with an employer, who are under 16 years of age, who have reached the qualifying age of old age pension or who work less than 18 hours per week.

Bernard Allen

Ceist:

71 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Labour the number of persons notified to his Department as having been made redundant by firms in Cork city in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989; and the number of persons notified to his Department as having been made redundant by Government Departments in Cork city in respect of (a) 1988 and (b) 1989.

Minister for Labour (Mr. B. Ahern)

Statistics of notified redundancies are not available in my Department in respect of Cork city as such statistics are recored on a county basis only. The total numbers of redundancies notified in County Cork in 1988 and 1989 were 2,796 and 1,369 respectively. This represents a decrease of 1,427 or 51 per cent in the 1989 figure as compared with that for 1988.

Redundancy figures for Government Departments are not separately identifiable on a regional basis in the statistical records of my Department.