Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 15 January 2026
323. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of redundancy notifications received from employers in County Waterford in each year 2020 to 2025; and the number of workers affected, in tabular form. [3010/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraSection 12 of the Protection of Employment Acts 1977-2024 provides that an employer proposing collective redundancies must notify the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment at least 30 days before the first dismissal takes effect.
Collective redundancies arise where, during any period of 30 consecutive days, the employees being made redundant are: 5 employees where 21-49 are employed; 10 employees where 50-99 are employed; 10% of the employees where 100-299 are employed; 30 employees where 300 or more are employed.
The information required to provide in a collective redundancy notification is set out in S.I. 324/2024 and includes the number of potential redundancies and the address(es) of the establishment where the collective redundancies are proposed.
However, employers are not required to provide a numerical breakdown of proposed redundancies by county where these may arise across multiple locations. In such cases, a collective redundancy notification may state the number of redundancies that are proposed nationally, without identifying how many posts may be affected in each specific county. As a result, the precise number of proposed redundancies attributable to an individual county may not be possible to determine from the information provided in a collective redundancy notification.
As it is not possible to provide a meaningful breakdown of the number of collective redundancy notifications received by county, the total number of collective redundancy notifications received nationally for the years 2020 – 2025 is therefore provided below.
It is important to note that statistics on collective redundancy notifications do not equate to/reflect the number of actual job losses across the economy. Redundancies below collective redundancy thresholds are not required to be notified to my Department. Furthermore, not all potential redundancies notified to my Department in a collective redundancy notification result in actual redundancies. Alternative solutions can be found during the 30-day consultation period between employers and employees and job losses may be avoided.
This data is correct at the time of issue.
|
Year |
No. of Collective Redundancy Notifications received |
No. of Potential Redundancies Notified |
|
2025 |
210 |
11067 |
|
2024 |
166 |
9664 |
|
2023 |
173 |
11563 |
|
2022 |
115 |
7173 |
|
2021 |
93 |
7655 |
|
2020 |
222 |
12514 |
