The Live register grew by 873 people across Limerick in July, according to detailed CSO figures released Friday morning.
The new figures show that 23,148 people are now signing on the live register across the city and county. The city register now stands at 16,490 people for July, up 671 on June.
In the county, July figures show there are 2,919 people signing on at welfare offices in Kilmallock, a rise of 79 on June, while there are 3,739 people signing at the Newcastle West offices, a rise of 123 on June figures.
Nationally there were 466,800 people signing on, an increase of almost 14,000 on the previous month.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has said the national figure would be “far higher” were not so many people forced to either leave the country or stay out of the workforce.
“There are now over 270,000 less people at work than in 2007. They are no longer paying taxes income taxes and their spending power is greatly reduced. This is reflected in the recent fall in income tax receipts and in retail sales,” Paul Sweeney, Economic Advisor to Irish Congress of Trade Unions said.
4,562 of the total July Limerick figure are people under 25.
and the government tell us”were coming out of this recession,or is that the american government telling us or is that the irish government being a parrot”,anyway i think this country is on a collision course with destiny.Time to wake up people.wakey wakey you have asleep for so long
the word “revoulution” is a word we read in books.Timing is everything and now everything is wrong,time to make things right……”if you tolerate this then your children will be next”.