asked the Minister for Social Welfare the number of small farmers who have been struck off the small farmer's dole from 1 January to 31 December 1983 in Tralee and Listowel employment exchanges.

It is assumed that the question refers to smallholders whose means for unemployment assistance were previously assessed on a notional basis but were reassessed on a factual basis arising from the provision in the Social Welfare Act, 1983. The reassessment of means of smallholders under this provision commenced in May 1983 and the number whose unemployment assistance payments ceased following factual assessment between May 1983 and December 1983 was 101 in the case of Listowel employment exchange and 105 in the case of Tralee employment exchange.