asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce how many adult workers, male and female, are signing-on at the Dublin, Dún Laoghaire, and Bray labour exchanges for the past four weeks.

The number of men and women on the live register at Dublin and Dún Laoghaire employment exchanges and Bray branch employment office on a specified date in each of four weeks in April, 1944, was:—

I thank you, Sir. Does the Parliamentary Secretary think it is conducive to the interests of this country to allow industrial firms to bring up men from the western counties, where there is no labour available for agriculture, to take work in these areas, while on an average 12,000 men displaced by the curtailment of fuel are unemployed every day?

That is a separate question.