Has the Minister of State available to him the corresponding emigration figures for each of these areas for the past two years? Does the Central Statistics Office apparatus enable such figures to be compiled for these local employment office areas?

This question deals with unemployment.

The other side of the coin is emigration. I am anxious to get the full picture and that is why I am asking a statistical question. Are these figures available to the Minister of State?

That is worthy of a separate question.

Can he obtain these figures?

I am very glad to be able to inform Deputy O'Keeffe that the unemployment figure for the south-west region is down by 15 per cent as compared with 1985.

I am not at all surprised. What surprises me is that there is anyone left to emigrate out of the place as so many have left. Would the Minister of State answer my question? I asked him if it is possible for him to furnish to me or to obtain for me the corresponding emigration figures for these local employment office areas?

That is clearly a separate question.

That is not in the question. The question deals with the unemployment figures.

Is the Minister of State saying to me that he cannot answer the question? What I want to know is——

I think the Deputy should put down the question.

If the Deputy puts down a separate question, I will answer it for him.

I will do that.