asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state in respect of Cork City the number of persons registered as unemployed at the latest available date and at the corresponding date last year.

The latest date for which the information is available is the 24th November, 1956. On that date the number of persons, resident in Cork City, who were on the register at the local employment exchange was 3,570. On the corresponding date in 1955, the number was 2,164.