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The protesters outside of the House of Leinster in Dublin on Tuesday that Finance Minister Brian Lenihan prepares to deliver his budget for 2010.?Photo: PA

. 6bn ￡ 104-the amount of government debt.

65 5pc - public debt as a percentage of GDP.

. 9bn ￡ 22-the Ireland deficit.

14 4pc - deficit as a percentage of GDP.

-7 6pc - growth of real GDP in 2009.

13 2pc - unemployment rate of the Ireland

€7.65 (￡ 6.45)New minimum wage of-Ireland, set out in a four-year national recovery plan. The minimum wage was introduced in 2000 and has been fixed at €5.59. It has increased sixfold since its introduction and amounted to above its initial when level 55pc it increased to €8.65 in July 2007, making the minimum wage second in Europe at the time.

€17. 7bn (￡ 14. 92bn)-the level of social protection expenditure in 2008, an increase in the image on the expenditure levels in 2000.

€196 (￡ 165) - Current weekly unemployment benefit. Social assistance payments were nearly doubled between 2001 and 2009.

66 - The new era in which individuals will be eligible for the pension from the State - to be introduced in 2014. Plans were also exposed to increase the age of 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028.

€35,904 (￡ 30,255) - The average annual salary in Ireland.

€46,132.84 (￡ 38,874) - Pay a worker primary school average in 2008.

59pc - compensation for public service amount has increased from 2000 to 2009.

18 €300 (￡ 15,421) - Irish coffee amount workers can earn to pay income tax. The point of entry to the income tax has risen from €7,238 since 2000. Standard tax rates and more also decreased and 26pc 48pc in 1997 - 1998 and 20pc 41pc in 2007.

To these changes, the proportion of employees income exempt from income tax rose from 34pc in 2004 to an estimated 2010 45pc.

4 5pc - the number of workers in the agricultural industry. Service industry the Ireland employs 75 9pc workforce, while the industry employs 19 labour the Ireland 6pc.

30 m - the number of European catering by beef for Irish. The Ireland is the largest exporter of beef in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. One in five burgers served in restaurants McDonald in Europe consist of Irish beef.

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