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Recession Statistics in Ireland
Saturday, October 20, 2012 16:50
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Food Poverty
in Ireland
The Irish Department of Social Protection recently commissioned a study on “Food Poverty”. This study has, for the first time, established clear and simple criteria whereby to measure the growing problem in Ireland.
The measurement uses “deprivation markers” to define food poverty:
1. Households that cannot afford a meal with meat, or vegetarian equivalent, every second day.
2. Households that cannot afford a weekly roast dinner.
3. Household that have missed a meal over a two-week period, due to a lack of money.
4. Inability to have family or friends for a meal or drink once a month
10% of people questioned for a CSO (Central Statistics Office) Survey in 2010 on Income and Living Conditions, experienced at least two of these conditions. Food poverty in Ireland will now be measured every year from here forward.
The study only looked at food poverty from 2004 to 2010. Figures have not yet been produced for 2011 and 2012. Somehow, it is just my wild guess that the figure, like the Fuel Poverty figure, will have increased.
Some More Recession Statistics
STRESS & DEPRESSION IN CHILDREN up in 2 years by 30%
UNEMPLOYMENT has increased by 348%
( from 4.2% in 2007 to 14.6% in February 2012)
FUEL POVERTY is now estimated to be at 40%
FOOD POVERTY in 2010 was estimate to be at 10%
UNEMPLOYMENT among 15 to 24y group is at 39%
UNEMPLOYMENT in the 15 to 25y group in some areas is 74%
RETAIL SALES are down by 5.50%
SUICIDES are up in 2011 from 2010 by 7%
TRUST in the Irish Government fell to a mere 20%
DISSATISFACTION WITH GOVERNMENT stands at 73%
DISPOSABLE INCOME in low income groups down nearly 19%
While by stark contrast:
INCOME FOR TOP IRISH EARNERS is up on average by over 4%
DUBLIN CITY MANAGER salary €190,000
COUNTY MANAGERS salary €153,260
Compare these salaries:
SPANISH PRIME MINISTER’S salary €78,185
GERMAN SURGEONS earn almost half of what Ireland pays.
Ireland is a seriously imbalanced society, fiscally, politically, and psychologically. We pay our county managers twice the salary of the Spanish Prime Minister, even as Ireland is suffering some shocking imbalances and deprivations.
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2012-10-20 16:41:07
Source: http://wood-pellet-ireland.blogspot.com/2012/10/recession-statistics-in-ireland.html
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