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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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The number of people signing the is supposed to have increased in October.?Photo: AFP/GETTY

Advance of the official unemployment figures tomorrow, economists predict that claimant number increased from 5 000 last month, reaching 1.48 m.Il would be the third month that the claimant count UK increased from a minimum of 16 months of July, 1.46 m

However, unemployment is expected to have decreased by 5,000 jobs in the three months to September, maintain 7 7pc unemployment rate and the total number of persons working at 2.45 m, according to IHS Global Insight economists.

Howard Archer, Economist at IHS, said that the increase in employment is mainly due to an increase in the number of workers on time partiel.Il said: "market work data may remain well mixed in the very short term, but we expect a clear trend and deterioration of increasingly emerge."We suspect that unemployment is directed to in the coming months because most slow growth trend, jobs caution below and the public sector business increase being smaller.?

Mr. Archer said unemployment could rise to 2.68 m at the end of this year, reaching approximately 2.75 m in the middle of 2012.

He said: "" major job losses are on the road in the public sector as Government slashes costs and we doubt that the private sector can compensate fully for cela.En effect, we suspect that companies become more more cautious in their employment plans reflecting slower growth and concerns intensified tax reduction retained for an extended period of economic activity."

He said that depended on the provision of goods or services to the public sector were also likely to get rid of "significant" jobs, private sector companies.

IHS has added wage growth is expected to have increased modestly in September, another sign that employers remain cautious about the Economic Outlook for the United Kingdom.

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