asked the Taoiseach the total number of people at work in 1951 and at the latest available date in 1966.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Persons at Work.
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I would refer the Deputy to my reply to his question of 7 June, 1966. No more recent information on the total number of persons at work has become available since that date.
No figures for this supplementary answer?
Is it not true there are 170,000 fewer people at work in comparison with 1951? Where are the promises about "Wives, put your husbands to work"? The Parliamentary Secretary will not answer that.
If the Deputy has the figures, why ask me?
The Parliamentary Secretary should be allowed to continue.
I trust we have your sympathy, Sir, in the eager desire of the Parliamentary Secretary to provide specific figures by way of supplementary answer in respect of the first two questions and his coy reluctance to provide corresponding figures for this.
Would the Parliamentary Secretary summarise the reply of the 7th of June?
The census figures will be available next year. There will be no firm figures until then.
There were figures in June?
No.
In the reply of 7th June, the estimated total number of people at work in April, 1965, was given. Further figures will not be available until January, 1967. Provisional results from the 1966 Census giving the number of persons at work at present will be available in the summer of 1967.
Give us the last figures you gave us.
You got them on 7th June.
You will not give them.