Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The Enterprise Development agency figures for jobs created are compiled annually in the Forfás Annual Employment Survey, the most up to date of which details employment figures up until 2009. The figures are in respect of numbers of persons employed in firms assisted by IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and Shannon Development, together with those assisted by the County Enterprise Boards (CEB) operating in the Mid West Region, which come under the aegis of my Department. As the information is compiled on an annualised basis, I expect the figures in respect of 2010 to become available during the first quarter of this year.

Figures for jobs created in the Mid West Region in 2008 and 2009 in respect of companies supported by the State's Enterprise Development agencies and the County Enterprise Boards operating in the Region are set out in Table 1 accompanying this reply. In addition to the jobs created by CEB-eligible clients, additional jobs have been created in 2010 through utilization of European Globalisation funds administered by Limerick City Enterprise Board (22 jobs) and Limerick County Enterprise Board (70 jobs).

Table 2 sets out the number of itinerary visits to the region in 2008, 2009 and 2010 sponsored by IDA Ireland and Shannon Development. The Enterprise Ireland and CEB portfolios of indigenous client companies are, of their nature, not very mobile, and therefore no itinerary visits were arranged by these bodies during the period in question.

Table 1

Table 2