Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 July 2015
203. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons, by administrative division and by age group, currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and who have not to date made any PRSI contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28619/15]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy is not currently available in my Department.
The following information was provided under Standing Order 40A
I replied that “the information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department”. Expressed more fully, this means that my Department could not reasonably be expected to provide the requested information within the time available to submit a reply, since the data requested are not routinely available in any of the Department’s systems and the significant time and workload required to generate the requested data would fall outside of what could reasonably be expected in a PQ answer.
Nevertheless in this case we will conduct a special exercise to generate the data for the Deputy and provide it to him directly, as soon as is possible and no later than 15 August, with a copy to the Office of the Ceann Comhairle.
