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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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Dublin Fergus O'Neill is a mission to sell copies of the poster 42bn worldwide.

With combinations in Brussels dictate the conditions for a bailout 85bn euro for the banking sector disaster Ireland, you could forgive the Irish to feel a little slack.

But aucune.Un sign Irish sense of humour is happily living, a re-fashioned a graphic displays of war with his gaze on the financial crisis facing.

His dark green poster featuring the slogan ' Keep Going...It is great '-a look at the dictum now ubiquitous in time of war, "Keep calm and carry the"-caught the attention of a nation frustrated with his handling of the saga of bailing out Government.

But is not only the poster providing a spur of motivation in the dark hours, there may also be the answer to the Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, prayers.

Graphic designer undertaking behind the poster on o ' Neill in Fergus, Dublin is a mission to sell copies of displays worldwide entier.Et restore euro per copy State - thus halve 42bn debt incurred by the banking crisis.

It is a command - about seven copies for each person on the planet - but with the power of Facebook, which can certainly be atteint.Une page on the social networking site, promoting the cause - which will display a weekly count money intended for the State - already has over 3,000 supporters.

Bid to sell 42 billion of these posters may seem absurd but it cannot be deemed to be no more absurd that scandalous practices and policies landed us ici.Il there was little we can do except be ourselves and to continue, "said Mr. O'Neill."

At fait.Espérons M. Cowen has purchased for his Office - it is necessary.

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Prime Minister Ireland, Brian Cowen, announces an austerity plan required for the European Union and the bailout by the IMF.

The Irish people will begin to feel pain when arrives 40pc - or €6bn - of the equipped with € in spending cuts and broadcasts € in next year's tax increases.

Effect measures - such as the precondition for a EU - IMF - rescue plan translates the average Irish households will have to pay additional fees of ￡ 3,000.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said that strict measures took place in the context of a slow economic recovery, with the Government in anticipation of that the economy will grow by an average of 2 75pc in the years from 2011 to 2014.

However, the financial markets have doubts on its yields on 10-year-old Irish Government bonds enlargement.

"It seems that realistic for me," said Stephen Lewis, Chief Economist at the monument of securities."Seems to anticipate strict fiscal measures and expect even the economy to grow in this contexte.Qui seems very unlikely."

James Nixon, Chief European Economist at general society, said: "is an extraordinarily austere budget, reductions are deep and needless mal.La main thing that stands out is that they expect even the economy will increase by 2 7pc over the next four years, but it is difficult to see how this may be true."

Irish households are faced with a new tax property ￡ 257 from 2012.Le plan described 24,750 public sector job cuts, a reduction of $ 2 social protection expenditure 8bn and intends to raise a. 1 €9bn additional income tax.

The minimum wage will be reduced from €1 €7.65 than a hour with VAT cut will be triggered 21pc 23pc in 2013, with a further increase of 24pc in 2014.

Unemployment is expected to decrease from 13 5pc to below 10pc during four years.

The Government continues to speak to the EU and the IMF on a bailout, package should be valued at approximately €85bn.

It wanted the Irish Government find a value savings of ￡ emissions of next year.

EU officials and the IMF will be police plan Ireland warned that if targets are not met, then it will refuse loans in the euro area, for a total of ￡ 72bn over three years to increases in tax and spending cuts are intensified.

There is more bad news for the Ireland this morning after standard & Poor cut its debt rating of two points of contagion threatens to spread through the rest of the euro area.

Middle class Irish families faced with the loss of low paid workers for a total of 50 per cent of the workforce, and tax credits will begin to pay taxes for the first time.

The current level of entry to the income tax is ￡ 15,506 for a single person and ￡ 27,071 for a married couple with children, thresholds to increase during the next four years.

"It seems that accounts arrived," said David Begg, head of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. ""The barbarians are at the gates."

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