Ray Butler (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We did not mention age discrimination in the Department but we all know it. Many things are being signed into law but we all live in the real world. Returning to the statistics of a person returning to the workforce, I do not want the numbers on the unemployment register to go up, but if a person is unemployed and cannot get any social welfare payment, why are they not classed as unemployed? Where do they go? Where are they in the stream of things?