Vol. 472 No. 4
133 Mrs. O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the number of new jobs which have been announced by Government over the past ten years; the numbers of such jobs which have materialised; and the number of jobs still outstanding. [23540/96]
The first part of the Deputy's question is tantamount to asking for the job approvals figures for the relevant agencies for the past ten years. As the Deputy may be aware, the practice of using job approvals as a measure of agency performance was discontinued in the 1980s, with the more realistic measure of first time jobs being substituted. More recently, of course, net job creation is now also used.
In relation to the number of jobs which have materialised over the past ten years, this is equivalent to actual gross job creation by the agencies and these figures are set out in the following table.
It is not possible, unfortunately, to give an indication of "outstanding jobs" in terms of the difference between jobs approved and those created. In any event, as indicated in the debate in the Select Committee on Enterprise and Economic Strategy on this topic last week, in the commercial world projects do not evolve precisely as planned and it is not realistic to think in terms of jobs that do not come on stream as being "outstanding". I also indicated in that debate that a once off survey of projects with more than 150 employees showed that by October 1996 (a) that 51 per cent of the jobs in projects announced in 1995 were in place and (b) that 28 per cent of the jobs in projects announced to date in 1996 were already in place. Clearly, any implication that these announcements relate to "phantom" jobs is unjustified. In addition, of course, agency performance clauses ensure that the Exchequer only pays for the jobs that do materialise.
|
Year |
IDA *Gross Jobs Created |
FORBAIRT Gross Jobs Created |
SFADCo• Gross Jobs Created |
|
1986 |
5,628 |
9,899 |
920 |
|
1987 |
5,037 |
9,266 |
862 |
|
1988 |
6,202 |
10,544 |
2,817 |
|
1989 |
7,453 |
11,556 |
2,891 |
|
1990 |
7,043 |
10,812 |
2,742 |
|
1991 |
6,030 |
9,596 |
1,971 |
|
1992 |
6,483 |
9,385 |
1,697 |
|
1993 |
7,662 |
9,420 |
1,449 |
|
1994 |
9,131 |
9,776 |
1,863 |
|
1995 |
10,944 |
10,678 |
1,796 |
|
Total |
71,613 |
100,932 |
19,008 |
