asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state the number of people in insurable employment for the last week in January, 1951, 1952 and 1953.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Insurable Employment.
It is not possible to state the number of persons in insurable employment in any particular week. Estimates of the average weekly numbers in insurable employment in each calendar year are, however, made annually by an inter-departmental committee and are published and presented to the Oireachtas in memoranda entitled the "Trend of Employment and Unemployment." The average weekly number of persons employed in occupations insurable under the National Health Insurance Acts during 1950 and 1951 as estimated by the committee was 489,800 and 498,900 respectively. The latter figure has not yet been published in the series of memoranda referred to. No precise estimate can yet be made for 1952 or 1953.