asked the Taoiseach the number of persons gainfully employed in the Gaeltacht areas in any of the last ten years for which figures or reasonable estimates are available.
Written Answers. - Gaeltacht Areas Employment Numbers.
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The censuses of population provide the only source of the information requested by the Deputy. The number of persons recorded as at work, in Gaeltacht areas, as then defined, in the last census taken in April 1971 was 22,771.