asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he can state the number of persons at present unemployed in the woollen manufacturing industry in the Saorstát.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - UNEMPLOYMENT IN WOOLLEN INDUSTRY.
The number of persons registered as unemployed in the employment exchanges and branch employment offices at mid-March, the latest available date, was 192. The number for previous months was:—
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Mid-January, 1928 |
480 |
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2nd February, 1928 |
373 |
The decrease in March was almost wholly in the Cork area.
Will the Minister say whether the decrease was due to the exhaustion of benefit or to the fact that the men had been re-employed?
Re-employment.