22-week wait to process new dole applications

NEWLY unemployed people will have to wait until the new year to have their dole applications processed in at least four counties.

Figures obtained by the Irish Examiner reveal the astonishing and growing waiting times facing people recently made redundant.

In one area, dole applicants will have to wait until next February to have their applications processed.

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