Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not but I will make myself familiar with those statistics later on and I will come back to the Deputy to either refute them or, if they can be substantiated, say that we have more work to do. My figures show that the amount of people taken off the live register is less than the amount of new people employed in the county. This means that people who were not on the live register actively seeking jobs decided to take up the jobs that were being created or that people are moving to Wexford to take up the jobs. Either way I will come back to the Deputy later this afternoon with clarification on the report he has just cited.

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