Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

All of the money being collected by way of the pension levy is to be used for job creation measures in the four year profile of the jobs initiative. As I indicated, the levy is a temporary measure, the purpose of which is to support the jobs initiative and the creation of employment. While the Deputy is correct that the number on the live register falls every September, the decline in September was the highest recorded in any single month, surpassing the previous largest fall recorded in September 2010. The number on the live register is 32,272 lower than in August 2011 and almost 5,000 lower than in September last year.

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