asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state the estimated number of persons in full-time employment weekly in occupations insurable under the Unemployment Insurance Acts for the year ended 31st December, 1941, as reckoned from the net contribution income for that year.
Written Answers. - The Unemployment Insurance Acts.
Taking the average weekly unemployment insurance contribution as 17.33d. and calculating on preliminary figures for the net contribution income of the Unemployment Fund, the estimated average number of persons employed in each week of 1941 in occupations insurable under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, was 247,000. The expressions "net contribution income" and "in each week" are used in the same sense as in the reply given to the Deputy's question on the 11th March, 1941.