asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he is aware that the recipients of unemployment assistance in the Dunquin district, Dingle, County Kerry, have to travel to Ballyferitter Garda Station to have their forms certified; and, if so, if he will consider making arrangements to have these forms certified at Dunquin by a member of the Garda, or at the local sub-post office.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unemployment Assistance Forms: Certification at Dunquin (Kerry).
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I dealt with this matter in reply to a similar question from the Deputy in May, 1958.
The regulations made under the Unemployment Assistance Acts require unemployed persons residing between four and six miles from a Local Office of the Department to attend once a week and those over six miles from a Local Office are excused attendance. Evidence of unemployment in the case of the latter is certified by the local Gardaí. The village of Dunquin is within five miles of Ballyferitter. As I said on the previous occasion I do not think that the existing signing requirement whereby unemployed persons in the Dunquin district have to travel to Ballyferitter on one day a week to have the evidence of unemployment certified by the Gardaí is unreasonable. I do not, therefore, propose to make any change in the case of the Dunquin residents.