A total of 62,927 redundancies were notified to my Department between May 2002 and the end of September 2004. Of these, 17,088 were notified between May and December 2002, with 27,702 being notified between January and December 2003 and the balance of 18,137 being notified between January and September 2004. The figure of 18,137 notified redundancies so far this year represents a fall of 10% from the figure for the same period last year (20,148).
For a breakdown of all the sectors which were affected by notified redundancies in this period, I refer the Deputy to the following table 1. For a breakdown of notified redundancies in each county over this period I refer the Deputy to the following table 2.