Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
3:00 pm
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The Central Statistics Office is very particular about the way it does its business. One would not want to interfere in the work it does. The live register is not an accurate figure of the number of people who are unemployed. There are people on the live register who work two or three days. I think we can get the Deputy an answer on the cohort he mentioned. Last year 134,000 moved off the live register. They were replaced by some others, but there has been a net increase in the number who are employed and the number of new jobs created. The figure does not give the numbers who are unemployed on a full-time basis, but when the CSO provides the analysis of the registry figures, it goes into detail about the different sectors.
I would need to reflect on the detail of the cohort the Deputy mentioned who are over 65 and are not included. I will come back to Deputy Tóibín on that.
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