https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCe2bwNeK7I&feature=youtu.be
Ireland through the years..
With olde timey piano music.
Andy Byron, of Dublin-based Stylo design, writes:
So we made this video based on the infographic recently released by the CSO. We thought your readers might like it…
Previously: TB Sheet
A letter sent from the Central Statistics Office to Eurostat on July 25, 2015
Ken Foxe, in yesterday’s Sunday Times, reported:
“A reference to plans for the future privatisation of Irish Water was removed from a Eurostat letter explaining its classification of the water utility following a request from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The reference, which could have proved highly embarrassing to the government, was in a preliminary letter sent by the European statistics agency to the CSO last July.”
“Eurostat had, in its original letter, said the “privatisation of Irish Water is ultimately envisaged” although ownership of the infrastructure could only be changed by referendum. However, the CSO asked that the reference to privatisation be removed, according to correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times following a document request to Eurostat.”
Meanwhile, Senan Molony, in today’s Irish Daily Mail [not online], reports:
“Irish Water has declined to say how many households have cancelled their direct debits since the firm admitted fewer than half had paid the first round of bills in summer. Instead the utility is insisting new direct debits are being taken out all the time.”
“Anti-water charges activists, however, claim their sources in the company are maintaining that up to one fifth of direct debt mandates originally set up by householders are no longer functioning in relation to the second billing period.”
“Asked about a suggestion that possibly 19 per cent of direct debit mandates have been cancelled, Irish Water acknowledged customers could ‘change their minds’ but would not confirm how many cancellations have been made.”
Related: Irish Water silence on cancelled water payments (Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Irish Examiner)
A graph and table from yesterday’s Central Statistics Office survey on income and living conditions in Ireland and Michelle Murphy, from Social Justice Ireland on Tonight With Vincent Browne last night
Michelle Murphy, from Social Justice Ireland, summarised the CSO survey on income and living conditions in Ireland last night.
– The median disposable income for an individual – after tax and after social welfare transfers – is just €17,374. This has dropped from €20,681 in 2008.
– One in eight children is living in poverty.
– 60% of those children is living in consistent poverty.
– As a whole, consistent poverty has doubled since 2008.
– There 698,000 people in Ireland who are living on incomes below the poverty line, in other words living on an income of under €10,425 a year.
– 91,000 people who have a job are living on an income below €10,425 a year, otherwise known as the ‘working poor’.
– If Ireland didn’t have social welfare, half the population would receive below €10,425 per year.
From last night’s show:
Vincent Browne: “The median income is the income that the person in the middle of society has, so it gives a far better reflection. And the median income is €33, 469 and we conduct public debate in this country as though everyone is living off of €50,000 and over. This isn’t true. And I just think half the population are living on..sorry, this is household income now, household income…of less than that.”
Michelle Murphy “Yes, so the median income gives a much clearer picture. It shows you what’s happening in society and the median income has been falling year on year, even though the average income rose this year, the median income fell and the picture of what’s happening in the middle. That shows that people are still losing money, it shows that perhaps wages are falling, they’ve less money in their pocket, they’re paying more for services. And the median income for an individual, not a household, is just €17,000 per annum so that’s the median income for individuals in the middle in society. So it really gives an accurate picture of what’s happening in the economy and in society and the challenges that Government face in terms of implementing policies to deal with because the policies they’ve implemented thus far have actually worsened the problem.”
Survey on income and living conditions (Central Statistics Office)
Number of people in consistent poverty in Ireland doubles since 2008 (Social Justice Ireland)
Watch Vincent Browne back in full here
Previously: The Real Heroes
The Central Statistics Office sez:
“Preliminary estimates show that average weekly earnings were €671.70 in Q3 2014, down 0.8% from €677.13 a year earlier. Revised weekly earnings were €684.97 in Q2 2014 and showed a decrease of 1.5% over the same period in 2013.”
“Other features of the preliminary results for Q3 2014 include: Average hourly earnings were €21.07 in Q3 2014 compared with €21.36 in Q3 2013, representing a decrease of 1.4% over the year. Average weekly paid hours were 31.9 in Q3 2014, an increase of 0.6% from 31.7 recorded in Q3 2013. Average hourly total labour costs stood at €24.26 in Q3 2014, a fall of 1.1% from the Q3 2013 value of €24.52.”
And…
“Over the 4 year period, Q3 2010 to Q3 2014, average weekly earnings across individual sectors show changes ranging between -12.1%, for the Education sector decreasing from €889.91 to €782.63, and +7.3%, for the Construction sector increasing from €661.65 to €709.82.”
There you go now.
Earnings and Labour Costs Quarterly (Central Statistics Office)
New figures from the Central Statistics Office, released this morning, say the sector which has seen the largest percentage increase in average weekly earnings in the year to Q2 2014, is that of the construction sector.
It has risen 6% from €698.27 to €739.96.
The Arts, Entertainment, Recreation and Other Service Activities sector saw the largest percentage decrease, -5.3%, from €500.42 to €474.13.
Earnings and Labour Costs Quarterly (Central Statistics Office)
[Top: A new graph published by the Central Statistics Office today detailing property prices in Ireland between February 2005 and February 2013 and, above, a screebgrab from a table showing the percentage price change in properties in Dublin in January and February 2014]
The CSO found:
In Dublin residential property prices fell by 0.6% in February and were 13.3% higher than a year ago. Dublin house prices fell by 0.6% in the month and were 13.6% higher compared to a year earlier. Dublin apartment prices were 10.5% higher when compared with the same month of 2013. The price of residential properties in the Rest of Ireland (i.e. excluding Dublin) rose by 0.9% in February compared with a decrease of 2.1% in February of last year. Prices were 4.2% higher than in February 2013.
Mark Sugrue writes:
“According to the CSO, Dublin house prices have fallen 2.1% since the start of 2014, bringing prices back to where they were in September 2013. Although the Dublin Meeja will claim the opposite. Doesn’t the Irish Times own myhome.ie?”
Residential Property Prices rise by 8.1% in the year to February (Central Statistics Office)
Graph update:
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Thanks Mark
Does anyone have figures for the live register adjusted for ‘activation measures’ and emigration levels please?
— Niamh Puirseil (@NiamhPuirseil) October 31, 2013
Number of jobless below 400,000 for first time since 2009 (Irish Times)
New CSO figures show a total of 89,000 people emigrated from Ireland in the year to April 2013.
Of that, Irish nationals were the largest group accounting for 50,900, or 57.2%.
CSO writes:
“Total emigration from Ireland in the year to April 2013 is estimated to have reached 89,000, an increase of 2.2 per cent on the 87,100 recorded in the previous year. The number of immigrants also increased over the same 12 month period from 52,700 to 55,900 (or 6.0 per cent).”
“This has resulted in total net outward migration remaining broadly constant with the previous twelve month period (33,100 compared with 34,400 respectively). However, among Irish nationals, net outward migration is estimated to have increased significantly, rising from 25,900 to 35,200, while that of non-Irish nationals is estimated to have changed from net outward (-8,400) to net inward (2,100).”
From the CSO:
Residential property prices in Dublin are 57% lower than at their highest level in February 2007. The fall in the price of residential properties in the Rest of Ireland is somewhat lower at 47%.
Residential Property Price Index June-2012 (CSO)
Will it be
1) A number of senior and mid-ranking officials at the Department of Finance?
2) The person whose job it was to spot these errors?
3) Nobody?
YOU decide.
TWO OFFICIAL reports on the €3.6 billion discrepancy in the Government’s debt figures have concluded there was duplication of effort between agencies, failures in communications and reporting, as well as lack of resources for key statistical work.
An internal Government report prepared for the Department of Finance and an external review carried out by consultants Deloitte and Touche have both concluded the responsibility for compiling the statistics should rest with one agency, the Central Statistics Office, rather than it being shared with the Department of Finance.
Lest we forget…
The secretary general of the department when the accounting error occurred, Kevin Cardiff, was rejected for the post of European Court of Auditors by a budgetary committee of the European Parliament by one vote in November last year. The European Parliament later overturned the recommendation by the budget committee to nominate Mr Cardiff to the post which carries a salary of €276,000 per year.
(Photocall Ireland)
