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asked the Minister for Social Welfare whether he will take steps to provide an employment exchange office convenient for unemployed persons resident in the areas of Ballyfermot, Inchicore, Crumlin, and Walkinstown, owing to the cost and inconvenience of bus transport to existing offices.
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asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will take steps to provide transport free of charge on Córas Iompair Éireann buses for persons resident in Ballyfermot, Crumlin, Inchicore and Walkinstown who find it necessary to register at employment exchanges in the centre of Dublin.
I propose with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle to take Questions numbered 34 and 35 together.
Persons resident in the areas mentioned by the Deputy reside mainly between two and four miles from their respective employment exchanges and are required to attend at those exchanges on two days a week only. Persons in those areas who reside more than four miles from the exchanges are required to attend on one day a week only. These requirements are considered reasonable. I should point out, lest the Deputy may not be aware of the fact, that unemployed persons in the outlying Dublin areas are better circumstanced from the point of view of signing requirements than persons resident elsewhere in the country. Unemployed persons living outside the Dublin areas who live between two and four miles from an employment exchange are required to attend at the exchange on three days a week instead of on two days a week as in Dublin.
