Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 115: To ask the Taoiseach the number of people registered as unemployed in County Kildare in each of the past five years to date in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31665/07]

Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The exact information as requested by the Deputy is not available. Statistics on employment and unemployment are compiled, at a regional level, from the Quarterly National Household Survey. There are eight regions in the State: Border, Midland, West, Dublin, Mid-East, Mid-West, South-East and South-West. Sub-regional statistics, of the kind requested by the Deputy, are not available from the Quarterly National Household Survey. However the Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming Unemployment Assistance, Unemployment Benefit and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Figures are published for each county and each Local Social Welfare Office. The most recent information available is for October 2007. The Live Register figures for all the Local/Branch Offices in Co. Kildare for each month from 2002 to date are set out in the table below.

It should be noted that:

[a]the Live Register is not a definitive measure of unemployment as it includes part-time workers, seasonal and casual workers entitled to Jobseekers Assistance or Benefit. Statistics on unemployment are measured at regional level by the Quarterly National Household Survey.

the exact area covered by each Local Office is not limited to the immediate locality of the particular office.