EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
£150 million: The cost of a luxury London flat that is to be brought on the market soon.
11,000: The number of children under the age of 16 with a severe disability that will receive medical cards in the future after a Sinn Féin motion was passed in the Dáil this week.
2,206: The number of children now living in homeless emergency accommodation in Ireland.
8.25%: The pay rise Dublin Bus workers should get over the next three years, as recommended by the Labour Court.
8.056: The number of children on hospital inpatient waiting lists this week, its second-highest level ever.
2,700: The number of people who had expressed their interest in a Leaving Cert music festival before being warned that it’s a “straight-up scam”.
1,000: The number of people who were cleared out of a camp in Paris after French police dismantled it.
11: The number of days it took Russian priest Fedor Konyukhov to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon, breaking the world record.
€280 million: The amount of extra money Ireland may have to pay to Europe due to our massive 26% jump in GDP last year.
€200 million: The amount of money that could be saved by the State next year due to a new drugs pricing pact.
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