Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party)
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156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of long-term unemployed persons in the South Dublin County Council area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28250/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Information relating to a claimant’s address is not currently coded to the geographical location of the address. As such it is not possible to accurately report numbers of people on the live register living in a particular area at present.

In the meantime I note that the number of people in receipt of a jobseeker’s payment and registered in the Department’s offices in the South Dublin Local Authority area (Clondalkin, Nutgrove and Tallaght) was 20,946 as at the end of June 2015. 9,969 of these people had a current claim duration of in excess of 1 year and would therefore be considered long-term unemployed.

As these figures relate to the office of registration, rather than the jobseeker’s address, they will include jobseekers living outside of the South Dublin Local Authority area, for example in other Dublin Local Authority areas and parts of Counties Kildare and Wicklow.