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Thursday, 25 September 2025

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for job seekers allowance or job seekers benefit who listed their previous employment as agriculture, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025. [49654/25]

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The number of Jobseeker's Allowance and Jobseeker's Benefit claims where the employment immediately prior to the claim commencement was in Sector A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing (based on NACE Rev 2.1) are set out in the table below. Please note these numbers refer to recipients, not applicants, as this data is only available for awarded claims.

Year Recipients
August 2015 102
August 2016 524
August 2017 491
August 2018 523
August 2019 429
August 2020 389
August 2021 366
August 2022 481
August 2023 417
August 2024 468
August 2025 281

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