Industrial Production

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 July 2012

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Ceisteanna (20)

Willie O'Dea

Ceist:

14 Deputy Willie O’Dea asked the Taoiseach the industrial production in the first quarter of 2012; the same figure for this time in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27533/12]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (Deputy Paul Kehoe)

The Central Statistics Office's Monthly Industrial Production Inquiry provides a short-term indicator of trends in the volume of Industrial production.

Final results for the first quarter of 2012 show a decrease of 2.7% on the preceding quarter (Q4 2011) and a decrease of 0.4% on the first quarter of 2011.

The information that the Deputy requested is available on the CSO website, and the table below contains the relevant information.

Table 1 Volume Indices of Production Base year 2005=100

All Industries NACE 05-35 Seasonally adjusted
Period	Index	% change on preceding period	Annual % change
2010
Quarter 1	107.7	11.5	1.9
2	108.4	0.7	4.8
3	110.7	2.1	11.2
4	109.6	-1.1	13.5
2011
Quarter 1	107.6	-1.8	-0.1
2	106.7	-0.8	-1.6
3	111.8	4.8	0.9
4	110.1	-1.5	0.5
2012
Quarter 1	107.2	-2.7	-0.4

Questions Nos. 15 to 23, inclusive, answered orally.