The Live Register in Waterford is up again this month.
There are now 14,459 signing on in the city and county. more than five thousand more than the same periond last year and more than twice as much as June 2007.
The monthly increase is 798, a bigger increase than last month.
At 5.8%, it's broadly in line with a national increase of 5.5% for the month of June.
The increases don't include recent job losses announced in Bausch and Lomb and ABB Transformers
which have yet to take effect.
Mayor of Waterford City Councillor John Halligan says the latest figures are appalling
He says we're facing crisis in Waterford