asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he will state the average weekly cost of home assistance paid to able bodied persons for the month of June, 1933, or for the last month for which the information is available in each county health or public assistance district.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cost of Home Assistance For Able-bodied Persons.
The information required is being collected and will be available if the Deputy will repeat the question in a week's time.
Does the Minister say that the information is not at the present moment regularly available in the Department? Are we to discuss the Unemployment Assistance Bill to-day without the assistance of these figures?
The information asked in the Deputy's question is not available in the Department at the present time.
Surely the Parliamentary Secretary should be aware that information of this kind must be in the hands of the Department and must be in the hands of the Department monthly?
I have already answered the Deputy.