18,504
And that is the number of people on the live register before the redundancies at ell yesterday have been included. The detailed figures for the regions were released by the Central Statistics Office this morning.
There has been a 97 percent increase in live register figures from both Limerick City and County.
3,013 people were on the live register in Newcastle West in April. This is down from 3,090 in march, This represents a 2.5 percent decrease in the live register since last month. However, it still represents a 111 percent increase on last year’s figures.
2,291 people are on the live register in Kilmallock, this is up from 2,262 last month. There has been a 123 percent increase in the live register since last month.
509 people joined the Live Register in Limerick city, bringing the figure from 12,691 to 13,200. There has been a 90.5 percent increase on Limerick City’s live register numbers since last year.