Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the live register figures are broken down by postal code or geographical area; if they are not, the technological problems that prevent them from being presented as such; the action being taken to allow greater precision in accessing and analysing the live register figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16998/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Live register data are collated by my Department by reference to the geographical area for which each local office is operationally responsible. That information is provided to the Central Statistics Office who break the information on a geographical basis by region, province, county and social welfare local office area and publish it on a monthly basis. A breakdown by postal code is not provided as post codes are not in use in most parts of the state.

The desirability and feasibility of further geographic analyses will be reviewed in the event of a national system of post codes, or some alternative system of geographic coding, being introduced.