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‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Industrial Employment. Clones unemployment figures
Summary
Reynolds asked whether emigration explained Clones’s lower unemployment figure and whether new jobs had been created; Bruton said the 4.45% decline was too small to support general conclusions.
Arising out of the Minister's first reply, would he agree that if we had up-to-date figures on emigration we might know exactly what has caused the drop in unemployment figures in Clones? Can the Minister point to any specific development which could have given rise to the drop in unemployment in that area?
Comment on this
It is a decline of 4.45 per cent, which is not very large. It would be difficult to draw any general conclusions from that. However, the move is definitely in the right direction.