asked the Minister for Social Welfare the number of people unemployed on 28 February 1983, 1982 and 1981 in each of the following areas: (1) Balbriggan, (2) Skerries, (3) Rush, (4) Lusk, (5) Donabate/Portrane, (6) Swords, (7) Malahide and (8) Portmarnock, County Dublin.
Written Answers. - County Dublin Unemployment Figures.
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Statistics are not maintained in such a way as would enable information to be furnished in the form requested by the Deputy. A physical count, however, of the numbers registered as unemployed on Friday last, 4 March 1983, in the area specified revealed the following: (1) Balbriggan, 348; (2) Skerries, 277; (3) Rush, 191; (4) Lusk, 116; (5) Donabate/Portrane, 86; (6) Swords, 538; (7) Malahide, 217; (8) Portmarnock, 186.