Live Register = number of persons signing on for certain welfare benefits = seeking unemployment benefit or assistance + signing to preserve social welfare benefits
In July 2010, 440,000(94% sought unemployment benefit or assistance
26,000 (6%) were signing to preserve benefits
Total = 466,000
If our economic performance has an outside objective assay, it is the price we pay to sell Irish Government debt.
The yield on 10-year Irish bonds was 5.25% in London on tuesday.
Irish debt is 2.64% more expensive than the Germans.
Portuguese debt is 2.53% higher than the Germans.
Spanish debt is 1.53% higher than the Germans
This government is a failure.
FF dissidents should realise there is no future in economic decadence
By Stephen King
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
AS Charlie Haughey might have put it, I think there is some dissatisfaction with the (FF) leadership at the moment. Forty years ago, in the wake of the Arms Trial, the issue was policy; today, the grumblers claim their differences with the Taoiseach are presentational.