Jack Wall
Ceist:178 Mr. Wall asked the Taoiseach the live register figures for each of the past three years for the constituencies of Kildare North and Kildare South; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2719/03]
Written Answers. - Live Register.
The live register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming unemployment assistance, unemployment benefit and other claimants registered with the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Figures are published for each county and each local social welfare office. A breakdown by constituency is not available. The most recent information available is for December 2002. It should be noted that: the live register is not a definitive measure of unemployment as it includes part-time workers, seasonal and casual workers entitled to unemployment assistance or benefit, statistics on unemployment are measured at regional level by the quarterly national household survey; and the areas served by local employment offices do not correspond to specific geographic boundaries or constituencies. Therefore, registrants at a given local office do not necessarily come from a particular region or area which can be precisely delineated. For instance, in the Tallaght local office in County Dublin there may be registered persons from the Blessington area in County Wicklow.
The number of persons on the live register in County Kildare, by local office, for the period of the last three years is set out in the following table:
Number of persons signing on the Live Register in County Kildare
|
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
||
|
Athy |
2000 |
881 |
803 |
747 |
729 |
704 |
728 |
705 |
677 |
591 |
578 |
575 |
592 |
|
2001 |
603 |
596 |
579 |
589 |
562 |
542 |
626 |
626 |
597 |
595 |
607 |
617 |
|
|
2002 |
697 |
730 |
737 |
753 |
733 |
779 |
810 |
795 |
786 |
770 |
770 |
787 |
|
|
Kildare Town¹ |
2000 |
644 |
583 |
93 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
2001 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
2002 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Maynooth |
2000 |
998 |
975 |
910 |
900 |
832 |
945 |
982 |
967 |
885 |
814 |
782 |
881 |
|
2001 |
874 |
891 |
873 |
872 |
906 |
996 |
1,048 |
1,068 |
955 |
970 |
1,029 |
1,100 |
|
|
2002 |
1,167 |
1,229 |
1,232 |
1,200 |
1,172 |
1,282 |
1,307 |
1,302 |
1,176 |
1,153 |
1,191 |
1,281 |
|
|
Newbridge |
2000 |
1,859 |
1,767 |
2,099 |
2,109 |
1,994 |
2,082 |
2,154 |
2,076 |
1,834 |
1,752 |
1,707 |
1,795 |
|
2001 |
1,882 |
1,842 |
1,765 |
1,782 |
1,694 |
1,798 |
1,846 |
1,881 |
1,763 |
1,752 |
1,900 |
1,980 |
|
|
2002 |
2,270 |
2,323 |
2,317 |
2,179 |
2,178 |
2,199 |
2,370 |
2,339 |
2,159 |
2,052 |
2,100 |
2,294 |
|
|
County Kildare |
2000 |
4,382 |
4,128 |
3,849 |
3,738 |
3,530 |
3,755 |
3,841 |
3,720 |
3,310 |
3,144 |
3,064 |
3,268 |
|
2001 |
3,359 |
3,329 |
3,217 |
3,243 |
3,162 |
3,336 |
3,520 |
3,575 |
3,315 |
3,317 |
3,536 |
3,697 |
|
|
2002 |
4,134 |
4,282 |
4,286 |
4,132 |
4,083 |
4,260 |
4,487 |
4,436 |
4,121 |
3,975 |
4,061 |
4,362 |
¹The office in Kildare Town closed in April 2000 and the claims were transferred to the local office in Newbridge.