Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 247: To ask the Minister for Finance the average and end year live register projection for 2009 underpinning budgetary forecasts in the updated stability programme. [4770/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Addendum to the Stability Programme Update was published on 9th January 2009 and the labour market projections are based on information up to the end of last year. In preparing the budgetary forecasts published in the Addendum, the average live register projection for 2009 is 340,000 persons and the corresponding year-end figure is for approximately 400,000 people.