Decrease in live register numbers
There has been a decrease in the number signing on the Live register in September.
Year on figures are showing an increase of just under 15% however and there has been a 37% rise in the number of redundancies reported in the first nine months of 2002.
Labour Party deputy, Joe Costello, said the Government has to change it’s priorities.
He said: "They are going to have to look at the state of the nation's economics with a view to giving assistance where it is needed, to boost employment rather than what they are doing at the moment, which is recruiting people in the public sector while manufacturing jobs are decreasing.
"They are going to have to direct their attention seriously to job creation."
