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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
€65 million: The Department of Justice has issued a €65 million tender for a new Direct Provision centre for asylum seekers.
12: The number of meat factories apparently brought to a halt by blockades, as protests by beef farmers continue in the wake of widespread disappointment over a proposed deal.
60: A ban on burning in Brazil will last 60 days, as the country struggles to deal with the fires raging through the Amazon.
57,500: The number of people who descended on Stradbally for this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival to see Florence & the Machine, The Strokes and Hozier.
4: The number of countries – the UK, Greece, the Czech Republic and Albania – that have lost their measles-free status as the number of cases increases across Europe.
611: The number of apartments developers are hoping to build on the site of the former RTÉ campus.
2: The number of weeks climate activist Greta Thunberg spent at sea as she travelled to New York to attend a climate change conference. The 16-year-old had refused to take a plane because of carbon emissions.
1%: How much the value of sterling initially fell by after Boris Johnson asked the queen to suspend parliament earlier this week.
€30,409: The average starting salary for a graduate jumped from €29,060 last year to exceed €30,000, according to a report published this week.
7: A school in Glanmire in Cork welcomed seven sets of twins as part of the new first-year intake.
635: The number of Brexit Party general election candidates unveiled this week by Nigel Farage.
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Rather than this money going to the exchequer can it please be used for mental health. Who cares where the money comes from if it helps people.
@✨Barbara Christopher: unfortunately it won’t, these people have all this welth because they spend most of their lives to do there very best to fiddle the taxman and the hard working taxpayer and it wrightley belonging to the Irish state.
@Heisen berg1: You think with all the money they already get they’d put this money to better use. Mental Health is a huge problem and I just wish they would put more money into employing people who can help.
Na harm in suggesting.
@✨Barbara Christopher: The exchequer already funds mental health to the value of €800 million annually, which we know is inadequate. Money going into the exchequer isn’t the problem as it can then be spent on state services. An increase in overall funding for mental health is what is required, rather than depending on confiscated assets, whose value can change dramatically from year to year.
WELL DONE
I’ll have to stop wearing my Rolex Watches out in public. Bang of Criminality off them these days It’s a pity ‘cos i paid 20 quid each for them down the pub.
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