Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister of State believe it is acceptable that employers need to wait for seven or eight months to get a refund? Many of them are struggling with cash flow difficulties. Regarding the issue of part-time and full-time employees, there is an anomaly regarding how the readings and calculations are done for redundancy and for the live register, which also adds to the discrepancy. Is it not the case that the real reason for the discrepancy is that people are either going into education or more likely emigrating from the country? That is why we are seeing redundancy figures increasing and live register figures reducing.

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