Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is the official figure and does not include immigrants who have returned to their country of origin or young people who have given up hope in this country and gone to Australia or somewhere else in the hope of finding a job and economic future for themselves. There is no stability in being unemployed, especially when people cannot get a social welfare payment or a reply from the social welfare office when making an inquiry about a claim.

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