Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 22 May 2001

Vol. 536 No. 5

Written Answers. - Live Register.

Michael Ring

Question:

119 Mr. Ring asked the Taoiseach the number of unemployed people in the social welfare local offices of every town in County Mayo in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14736/01]

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (Mr. S. Brennan)

The CSO's live register area analysis shows the number of claimants at each Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs local office. The most recent information available is for April 2001. However, the live register is not a definitive measure of unemployment as it includes part-time workers, seasonal and casual workers entitled to unem ployment assistance or benefit. Statistics on unemployment are measured at regional level by the Quarterly National Household Survey.

The following table shows the number of people signing on in each local office in Mayo and Mayo County:

Live Register for County Mayo

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	9,240	9,041	8,669	8,571	8,426	8,627	8,804	8,765	8,440	8,295	8,129	8,449
1999	8,611	8,373	8,015	7,844	7,606	7,672	7,863	7,825	7,572	7,353	7,241	7,629
2000	7,569	7,379	7,099	6,992	6,555	6,679	6,640	6,673	6,076	6,026	5,907	6,140
2001	6,133	5,990	5,956	6,017

Achill

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	462	454	445	440	433	453	460	477	410	393	378	397
1999	402	372	364	376	363	373	398	384	376	336	326	363
2000	339	329	321	335	321	313	307	296	279	297	290	315
2001	312	296	305	301

Ballina

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	2,858	2,841	2,736	2,707	2,661	2,736	2,826	2,823	2,761	2,717	2,676	2,693
1999	2,778	2,820	2,663	2,612	2,478	2,481	2,464	2,430	2,363	2,324	2,287	2,397
2000	2,387	2,295	2,198	2,167	2,039	2,094	2,083	2,003	1,873	1,858	1,823	1,831
2001	1,863	1,829	1,834	1,890

Ballinrobe

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	589	587	560	541	538	553	554	552	541	536	522	552
1999	559	521	498	473	474	477	485	485	518	499	491	513
2000	480	491	455	444	402	420	409	414	366	368	369	381
2001	389	375	363	377

Belmullet

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	1,189	1,148	1,091	1,122	1,108	1,107	1,199	1,125	1,085	1,038	997	1,030
1999	1,095	1,084	1,059	1,083	1,024	1,035	1,040	1,047	993	984	985	1,004
2000	1,009	1,001	988	977	950	962	924	997	902	858	829	828
2001	825	795	787	806

Castlebar

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	1,084	1,035	980	962	946	993	1,016	1,022	994	989	973	1,064
1999	1,029	997	942	915	899	915	952	973	924	864	833	903
2000	896	861	877	860	805	834	866	884	761	743	697	770
2001	763	760	770	780

Claremorris

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	731	716	717	703	679	712	686	694	658	656	635	683
1999	660	621	602	582	555	594	630	631	558	571	578	656
2000	657	640	577	576	510	543	538	546	504	505	511	527
2001	525	529	514	518

Swinford

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	1,165	1,116	1,078	1,058	1,051	1,067	1,053	1,069	1,023	1,006	1,017	1,047
1999	1,110	1,028	1,012	963	971	976	1,044	1,034	1,005	980	973	1,011
2000	994	997	934	921	850	865	881	907	805	820	817	896
2001	865	846	838	810

Westport

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1998	1,162	1,144	1,062	1,038	1,010	1,006	1,010	1,003	968	960	931	983
1999	978	930	875	840	842	821	850	841	835	795	768	782
2000	807	765	749	712	678	648	632	626	586	577	571	592
2001	591	560	545	535