Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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144. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons currently on the live register in Tuam, County Galway, or the next smallest applicable area; the number on the live register in Tuam on 1 March of each year, from 2012 to 2014, inclusive. [8478/15]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social Protection. Figures are published for each county and local social welfare office.

The most recent Live Register figures available are for January 2015. There were 2,730 people signing on in Tuam, County Galway, on the last Friday of January 2015.

The table below contains the numbers signing on in Tuam, County Galway, on the last Friday of each March from 2012 to 2014.

It should be noted that the Live Register is not a definitive measure of unemployment as it includes part-time workers, and seasonal and casual workers entitled to Jobseeker's Benefit or Allowance.

Persons on the Live Register in Tuam, Co Galway, March 2012 - March 2014