174 Deputy John O’Donoghue asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons made redundant in County Kerry in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3115/11]

On 1 January 2011, my Department assumed responsibility for making redundancy payments from the Social Insurance Fund. There are two types of redundancy payment made from the fund i.e. rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. The number of redundancies in County Kerry in 2010 was 1,144.