Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

I do not quite understand the issue with the redundancy figures. I can give the Deputy details of the redundancy claims lodged between 2002 and 2009. I am not sure whether the Deputy is interested in them from a statistical point of view. Clearly a person who was in part-time employment does not get redundancy. While I know what the Deputy is asking, he might want to reframe that question. Clearly part-time employees are able to make social welfare claims. I know we are not taking questions for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, but I would have thought that was understood. The Deputy's question is framed on the difference between the live register and the unemployment——

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