Ceisteanna—Questions . Oral Answers . - Unemployment Figures
- Donegal and national unemployment figures 2 speeches
The Minister said county unemployment percentages were unavailable, but reported 8,229 people on Donegal’s live register and 105,567 nationally, with year-on-year increases of 14.5% and 27.9%.
Neil T.C. Blaney, Seán Moore
- Visitors travelling in State cars 3 speeches
L’Estrange asked for the number of recent visitors travelling in State cars; the Minister said he could provide it, and L’Estrange remarked that taxpayers would learn in time.
Gerald L'Estrange, Seán Moore
- Unemployment data and Donegal’s rate 9 speeches
Cluskey asked about the distinction between “employed” and “gainfully employed,” while Blaney challenged the Minister’s ability to assess unemployment without labour-force figures and asserted Donegal’s rate was 16%. The Minister said he had provided the available information and regretted the unemployment; Blaney called the reply inadequate and said he would raise the matter on the Adjournment.
Frank Cluskey, Neil T.C. Blaney, Seán Moore, Padraig Faulkner
asked the Taoiseach (1) the percentage of unemployed persons in County Donegal and (2) the national average percentage of unemployed persons.
Comment on this
: A figure for the percentage of unemployed persons in County Donegal is not available at present because statistics on the labour force by county are not available.
The numbers on the live register in County Donegal at end September 1980 were 8,229, an increase of 14.5 per cent since end September 1979. The corresponding national figure was 105,567 at end September 1980, an increase of 27.9 per cent over end September 1979.
Comment on this
: How can the Minister honestly give figures for a net increase in the number of unemployed when he does not know how many are employed? When will these figures be available? Is there any significance in the fact that they are not available at the moment? Is it not a fact that in Donegal we have the highest percentage of unemployment in the county, not new but increasing?
Comment on this
: Unemployment anywhere is not acceptable to the Government. We are trying very hard to give information on this point and at the same time to provide employment. I have given the Deputy all the information I have.
Comment on this
: The reply is ridiculous and in view of that I intend to raise the matter on the Adjournment.
