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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 23 Apr 1986

Vol. 365 No. 8

Written Answers. - County Donegal Unemployment Statistics.

38.

asked the Taoiseach the number of unemployed persons on the live register in Buncrana, Letterkenny, Stranorlar and Dunfanaghy, on 8 April in each of the years from 1982 to 1986 inclusive.

Live register figures are published for the last Friday of each month. The following table shows the number of persons on the live register at each local employment office in County Donegal at the end of March 1982-86.

Local Office

26 March 1982

25 March 1983

30 March 1984

29 March 1985

28 March 1986

Ballybofey

1,260

1,423

1,504

1,522

1,611

Ballyshannon

459

526

566

552

569

Buncrana

2,273

2,548

2,855

2,863

2,636

Donegal

511

618

640

625

719

Dunfanaghy

1,034

1,151

1,168

1,179

1,183

Dungloe

1,356

1,562

1,695

1,667

1,770

Killybegs

671

840

907

829

1,060

Letterkenny

2,031

2,235

2,480

2,642

2,748

Total County Donegal

9,595

10,903

11,815

11,879

12,296

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