asked the Minister for Social Welfare the total number of insured persons whose applications for unemployment benefit were disallowed by the deciding officer or the appeals officer in each of the years 1968, 1969 and 1970 on the grounds of (a) direct participation in a trade dispute, (b) maintaining or financing a trade dispute as defined in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1967, and (c) belonging to a trade or class of workers any of whom immediately before the commencement of the stoppage were participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute.
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