There was a slight drop in the number of people on the Live Register this month - of 3,400 people.
There were 382 thousand 800 people signing on this month - when seasonal factors are taken onboard.
That's a drop of over 36 thousand people on last year's figure.
The standardised unemployment rate for this month stands at 11.5 percent, down slightly from 11.6 percent last month.
Michael McLoughlin of Youth Work Ireland is giving the figures a cautious welcome.
He says the number of young people on the register is still unacceptably high:
