Jim O'Keeffe
Ceist:264 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs the number of persons registered as unemployed in each social welfare local office in Cork South West at 31 December 1997. [4969/98]
Written Answers - Unemployment Levels.
The information sought by the Deputy is contained in the following table: Number of people on the Live Register as of end of December 1997
|
Local Office |
Persons on the Live Register |
|
Bandon |
712 |
|
Bantry |
557 |
|
Bantry (SWLO)* |
204 |
|
Clonakilty |
638 |
|
Dunmanway |
168 |
|
Kinsale |
817 |
|
Passage West |
1,069 |
|
Skibbereen |
826 |
|
Total |
4,991 |
*Bantry social welfare local office deals with live register claims from Dunmanway rural areas.
There was a decrease of 289 people on the live register when compared with the figure for December 1996 — 5,280.