Unemployment figures for east Cork
The Minister gave registration figures for east Cork in 1981–83 and, in follow-up exchanges, said the year-on-year increase was about 25 per cent and the total was 4,216, clarifying that this figure referred to east Cork. O’Keeffe urged the Government to provide urgent funding given the area’s severe unemployment and harbour-area closures; the Minister undertook to convey the concern, and the Chair deferred remaining questions.
asked the Minister for Social Welfare the total number of people unemployed in east Cork at the present time, in 1981 and 1982; the number on unemployment assistance in those years; and the number on unemployment benefit.
Comment on this
Details of the number of persons registered as unemployed at the local offices serving east Cork in 1983, 1982 and 1981 are as follows:—
Comment on this
Is the Minister aware that east Cork is one of the blackest unemployment spots, and with the harbour area practically on the verge of closure, would the Minister inform his Government that money is urgently required in that area?
