However, latest CSO data shows annual 6% decline in output from accommodation and food services
Output from the Republic’s services sector increased sharply in April from the same month last year, provisional figures from the Central Statistics Office reveal, with both prices and volumes increasing year-on-year.
The industries with the biggest annual increase in turnover were professional, scientific and technical activities – including legal services, scientific research and engineering activities among others – where output values, measured in current prices, increased 15.1 per cent. The value of output from the information and communication sector, which includes the tech sector, jumped by more than 13 per cent year-on-year.
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