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asked the Minister for Social Welfare whether he will amend the relevant regulations so as to provide that unemployment assistance recipients living within two miles of the employment office need not sign on daily, and thus enable them to give the maximum time possible to the working of their smallholdings.
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asked the Minister for Social Welfare if, in view of the fact that the regulations at present in operation regarding the verification of evidence of unemployment in connection with applications for unemployment assistance are time-wasting and not suited to modern conditions, he will take steps to have them altered.
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asked the Minister for Social Welfare why it is necessary for a recipient of unemployment assistance to sign evidence of unemployment daily if he is living within two miles of an employment office, only three times weekly if he lives within four miles, and only once weekly if he lives within six miles or more from the office.
With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 63, 64 and 65 together.
I have dealt fully with this subject in the course of my replies to four previous questions put down by the Deputy during the past 12 months and I consider that there is nothing which I can usefully add to the information already given or to the views I have already expressed.
