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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
11,078: The number of sexually transmitted infection diagnoses reported so far this year, according to provisional data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
99: The number of objections lodged against a planned injecting centre for chronic heroin and cocaine addicts in Dublin city centre.
585: The number of pages in the draft Brexit deal that Theresa May secured cabinet approval for during the week.
62: The percentage of people surveyed in Northern Ireland who believe Brexit makes a united Ireland a more likely possibility.
€31 million: The price at which a pearl and diamond pendant owned by Marie Antoinette before she was beheaded during the French Revolution sold for at auction.
€25,000: The average compensation that property owners affected by the Bus Connects plan will receive.
555,000: The average number of people who tuned into RTÉ’s documentary about Maurice McCabe.
€1.6 million: The amount of money that Dublin City Council is set to spend on the removal of discarded chewing gum in public areas.
95: The age at which legendary comic books writer Stan Lee died at.
45: The number of female-only senior academic roles within the higher education sector that are set to be created over the next three years.
€1,334: The average monthly rent nationwide in the year to September which is €304 higher per month than at the Celtic Tiger peak.
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The pension levy will be abolished at end of next year, not this year.
And the double-Irish will be abolished next year for new companies, and for all by end-2020 – not next January.
Separately, WTF is that 25% Christmas bonus all about??
I thought we abolished THAT nonsense a few years ago.
Hi – I just added in the 0.6% to the first Pension Levy mention there, that’s the one abolished by end of 2014. The second part was mentioned in its section. Thanks!
buying older electoral vote, pure and simple
25% is free money to people with no jobs. I have no problem giving it to those that worked and lost a job. But it should not be given to those that have never worked, most especially those that didn’t work during the boom years when jobs were everywhere.
Simon it is not just for pensioners, it is for all social welfare receipients.
Loads of money for free ‘social houses’ too.
The Christmas bonus is zero compared to the bankers bonus on screwing their customers
I really see the greed coming through here. It’s all about me, me, me. Can you all not see that we have a huge number of poor people all over the place, people who are really struggling.
@Eugene.
yes, they’re called the working class.
The only greed I see is the government greedily trying to buy votes,
25% Christmas bonus to social welfare recipients…. eh why?
There’s a million better things I could think of spending that money on.
It’s for pensioners!!! Relax you and I won’t be any worse off
Livida
its for all Social Welfare Recipients
Really?? I am pretty sure it was announced that it was for pensioners on a social welfare payment.
Aah well, I still won’t be any worse off so won’t begrudge anyone who needs it, it’s a once off 25% payment for gods sake… Take a look at what enda and Joan are taking from the tax payer…
In reading the above article it looks to be to all social welfare recipients. And it’s a once off to a huge number of people. I’m pretty sure that adds up to just a little bit more than pocket change.
My point was this would be better spent elsewhere.
A 25% Christmas bonus going to people that I know for a fact wouldn’t get up to warm themselves!!!!! And then people going out to work are being screwed!!! A joke!
Quite the little right wing fascist, aren’t we?
Not everyone on social welfare is there by choice, some of them are but not all! Both my parents worked and paid taxes up until my dad became terminally ill and was not fit to work anymore and shortly after that my mum became his carer (leaving her full time job!). Are you saying you’d begrudge them a 100 or so at Christmas when they struggle to make ends meet through no fault of their own?
No one says your family doesnt deserve it, it’s the family who spent all day doing nothing or drinking and are able to buy there 3 kids ipads and laptops and phones for xmas because they get the dole, rent supplement and what ever else extra and whos kids left school early because they couldn’t be bothered and are know also sitting on the dole, where as other people who go out and work 50+ hrs a week and have so high of taxes they struggle to afford presents for there kids because there money is being used to pay for the other ppl who definetely do not deserve it!
Lucinda is on tv now blasting the government she backed until she lost the plot .
When they get rid of the water tax
What happened to free health care for under 5 children which was promised last budget if I can remember? Not holding my breath with this €5 increase in Childcare Benefit
I’m going to be saving the government the tax relief amount on my water allowance……
Of d fags so
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