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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers you a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
200 – The number of Greek MPs, out of 300, who voted in favour of an austerity package last Sunday night (well, actually Monday morning) in order to secure a new €130 billion bailout from the EU and IMF. Despite their votes – and the huge public demonstrations that followed the austerity moves – the bailout hasn’t been sorted out just yet.
96 – The number of jobs, per day, that the government believes its new Action Plan for Jobs will create on average over the next eight years. The plans include 270 legal measures which hope to create 100,000 jobs by 2016 and 200,000 by 2020.
€8.51 – Independent candidate Mary Davis spent €414,041 on her presidential election campaign – the second-highest of any candidate, outstripped only by Gay Mitchell. She got 48,657 first presence votes – equating to just over €8.51 per vote, the highest of any candidate. Gay Mitchell spent €4.65 per vote, while winner Michael D Higgins spent just 56c, the least of any candidate.
€9.358.16 – The amount spent by Gay Mitchell buying cable ties for his posters in the presidential election.
€2,871.46 - The amount paid by Martin McGuinness’s campaign to Morgan Fuels Ireland Ltd – that’s the company of Hugh Morgan, the businessman who accused Sean Gallagher of collecting Fianna Fáil donations from him just two days before polling. McGuinness explained that Morgan Fuels offer a debit card which can be used at a number of other stations, and that the expenses simply related to the cost of running his campaign bus.
10 – The number of Dublin Bus vehicles being fitted with WiFi for a trial next week. The buses will operate on the 16 route.
4,200 – At the end of February, the health services will have 4,200 staff fewer than the end of September – a figure James Reilly admits will mean an “unavoidable reduction” in the provision of services.
€41,152 – The amount that independent TDs get each year in an unvouched ‘leaders’ allowance – Senators get €23,383. This week the government voted against plans which would force those politicians to submit receipts for how they spend the cash, with the proposal (put forward by the independent Senators who actually get the payment) defeated by 31 votes to 20.
16,920 – The number of tip-offs received by the Department of Social Welfare about potential welfare fraud last year. The Special Investigation Unit at the Department reported ‘control savings’ of €60 million as a result of investigations last year.
€1,453 – The average domestic mortgage in Ireland is now €1,453 (at least) in arrears, according to figures released by the Central Bank. There were 70,911 households who were more than 90 days behind, with those households being behind by an average of €15,753 each.
103,916 – The number of homes which had signed up to pay the Household Charge as of Thursday afternoon. If the government’s estimate that there are 1.6 million homes in the country, that means just under 6.5 per cent of people have signed up in the first half of the three-month window to pay the €100 fee.
83 – The number of Fine Gael and Labour TDs who voted to kick Labour’s Michael McNamara out of the Dáil on Thursday. This was despite the fact that after a row with the Ceann Comhairle, Seán Barrett, McNamara had already left the room.
€2 billion – One reported estimate of how much the Italian Catholic Church could be facing in annual tax bills, if Mario Monti proceeds with his plans to close a tax loophole whereby Church-owned commercial properties (like hotels) do not have to pay property tax as long as there’s a chapel inside.
113,111 – The average number of copies sold by the Irish News of the World each week in the first half of 2011. The paper looks like it’s about to replaced by a new Sun on Sunday, if Rupert Murdoch’s email to staff on Friday is anything to go by.
Can’t they just sell some bitcoins to cover the losses
No because they claim all BTC have been stolen, but they got hacked and database leak says otherwise
It’s all fugazi
My advice if you have a few bob spare is invest one weekends drink money in lite coins. Created by Google engineers its an alternative to bit coin and a couple of years behind it. When you consider a bit coin was what a few euro and jumped up to 700 or so at one point. A lite coin is about 11 euro a coin. If anything you cash out in months with what you invest I do see it climbing.
You could mine then but jesus its painful and even if you have best pc its not worth it
I got 2,200 xrp free – ripple. Waiting to see what happens. Sat on my free mined bitcoins for a couple of years thinking they would never be worth anything, how wrong I was :)
Thanks. Going to look into that.
Do check it out :) mining a bit coin your talking years to wsrn one coin in which case you fried a few gpu’s and a esb bill of small country. They are expensive to but also hundred for one.
That’s why I think lite coins could work. Would you really miss €100 next year if it falls apart but could get nice little return. There is few sites where you can see how much bit and lite coins ate trafing against $£€
@eye c u depends on the hashing power you have. If you have a knc 2 terrahash miner you will mine a couple of bitcoins a year at current difficulty. Scrypt based coins like litecoin/dogecoin are cheaper for the average person to get involved in. BTW you never told us how you got those scars?
From dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight. I told you that last week.
The sooner this renegade stops dragging out its 15 minutes the better it’ll be for Bitcoin as a whole!
You just have to love the word “allegedly”!
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