Now 7,000 queue for dole in Limerick city
Published Date:
04 July 2008
By Gerard Fitzgibbon
AS the economic recession starts to take effect across the country, new figures have shown that Limerick City's Social Welfare office is now the second busiest in the country.
Figures from the Central Statistics Office have shown that more than 7,000 people are now signing on for unemployment benefits at the Dominic Street office, an increase of almost 2,000 in the past 12 months.
The total figure of 7,350 is surpassed nationally only by the office in Hannover Street in Cork, where 9,368 are currently signing on.
The live register for May shows that a total of 9,911 people are signing on in Limerick, with 1,094 people registered at the Kilmallock office and 1,467 in Newcastle West. The total figure for the city and county is an increase of 2,668 since May 2007.
Of those signing on at Dominic Street, 1,670 are under the age of 25. At the end of May, the national live register stood at 201,756, an increase in almost 50,000 from this time last year.
Labour Party health spokesperson Jan O'Sullivan described the surge in the local live register as "very worrying".
"Certainly we all feel that the economic situation is very worrying. I think that at this time, the Government needs to sit down with the various bodies, such as the IDA, FAS, Shannon Development. The huge increase in the Limerick live register has highlighted just how drastic this situation is becoming."
For more see this week's Limerick Leader city edition
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04 July 2008 9:59 AM
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