asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state the number of persons in each category in the building trade group who were registered as unemployed during the first week in January, February, March and April, 1940.
Ceisteanna.—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unemployment in Building Trades.
The particulars required are compiled at quarterly intervals only. On 31st December, 1939, the last date for which information is available, the numbers on the live register for the building trade group were as follows:—Carpenters, 1,677; bricklayers, 339; masons, 531; plasterers and tilers, 638; painters, 1,325; plumbers and glaziers, 286, and builders' labourers, 5,206. Total, 10,002.