Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Unfortunately, I missed the first part of the meeting as I was in the Dáil on Topical Issue matters. I would like to take a wider look at this issue. We can talk about the service providers, but we need to look at the requirements of the people we are trying to serve. Will Mr. Egan tell me what was the lowest number of people who were registered as unemployed at any time, say, since the year 2000? In other words, during all the boom times, when jobs were readily available, what was the lowest number of people registered as unemployed we ever got to? I am not talking about the live register, which is a different issue. I am talking about people who were registered as unemployed.