asked the Taoiseach if he will state the total number of persons registered unemployed at present.

The total number of persons on the live registers at the local offices of the Department of Social Welfare at the most recent available date (8 February, 1958) was 85,935.

Has the Taoiseach yet decided to do anything to relieve mass unemployment?

I have already indicated what the general attitude of the Government is towards that matter.

All the Taoiseach has been doing for the past 12 months is talking.