asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state the total registered unemployed at each employment exchange in County Wicklow to the nearest available date and the corresponding figures for the years 1952 and 1951.

As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comharle, to have it circulated in the Official Report.

Following is the statement:—

TABLE showing the number of persons registered at the Local Offices of the Department of Social Welfare in County Wicklow on the dates shown.

asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will give particulars of the number of persons on the live register at each of the employment exchanges in the County of Galway on the last Saturday of January and of June for each of the years 1951, 1952 and 1953.

As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to circulate it in the Official Report.

Following is the statement:—

TABLE showing the numbers of persons registered at the Local Offices of the Department of Social Welfare in County Galway on the dates shown. (Saturdays).

asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will indicate the number of unemployed in the Kilcaskan area, Bantry, County Cork.

The number of persons resident in the district electoral division of Kilcaskan registered at the local office of my Department at Bantry is 37.

In view of the many outstanding types of work already proposed for that area, and in view of the number of unemployed there, will the Minister use his good offices with his colleagues to get something done?

That is a separate question.