Noel Harrington (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the Government projections for the estimated number of persons on the live register in the years 2015 to 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18134/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The estimated average weekly number of persons on the Live Register (LR) that underpins the Budget 2015 estimate for the Department is 337,800. There is no estimate, at this stage, of the average weekly number of persons on the LR for 2016 and later years. The estimate for 2016 and the associated resources required will be agreed in a budgetary context later this year with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform having regard to the latest economic projections on the labour market.