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‹ Questions—Ceisteanna. Oral Answers. - Industry Redundancies. Redundancies in textile, clothing and footwear industries
Summary
The Minister reported 1,557 textile redundancies and 629 in clothing and footwear in the year to September 1978; footwear figures were not separately compiled.
asked the Minister for Labour the number of redundancies which have occurred in the clothing, textile and footwear industries during the past year.
Comment on this
The number of redundancies notified to my Department as qualified under the Redundancy Payments Acts in the 12 months ended 30 September 1978—the latest 12 months period for which figures are available —was (a) 1,557 in the textile industries and (b) 629 in the clothing and footwear industries. Separate figures are not compiled for the footwear industry alone.