asked the Taoiseach the number of job losses and the number of registered unemployed in the Gaeltacht areas in 1987; the number of new jobs created in the same year; the projected job creation figures for 1988-89; and the estimates for emigration from the Gaeltacht, if any, that his Department may have prepared.

Tuigim ó Údarás na Gaeltachta gur cruthaíodh 911 phost nua agus gur cailleadh 652 post i 1987 i dtionscail sa Ghaeltacht a fuair cúnamh ón Údarás nó ó Ghaeltarra Éireann, rud a d'fhág go raibh glanmhéadú de 259 nduine i líon na ndaoine a bhí fostaithe sna tionscail sin ag deireadh 1987 i gcomparáid le deireadh na bliana roimhe sin; agus go meastar go gcruthófar suas le 600 post nua i mbliana agus thart ar an líon céanna i 1989.

Tuigtear ón bPríomh-Oifig Staidrimh nach mbíonn eolas sonrach ar fáil maidir leis an líon daoine sa Ghaeltacht a bhíonn cláraithe mar dhaoine dífhostaithe; agus gur ar bhonn náisiúnta a dhéantar meastacháin maidir le himirce agus nach mbíonn meastacháin ar leith ann don Ghaeltacht.

Bíonn an deacracht agam i gcónaí cé'n rud is fearr a dhéanamh, leanúint i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla. My question asked for projected emigration figures from the Gaeltacht that the Department of the Gaeltacht may have prepared and I put that question down in the full knowledge that within the Department of the Gaeltacht there are surveys on previous emigration and changing patterns of emigration. My question was not to the Central Statistics Office but rather to know what estimates for net out migration have been prepared by the Department of the Gaeltacht.

Ní shílim go mbeadh sé i gcumas aon Roinne eolas den chineál sin a chur ar fáil, mar athraíonn imirce agus athraíonn cúrsaí mar sin ó am go ham.