asked the Taoiseach if he will up-date the reply to parliamentary Question No. 290 of 31 January 1978 relating to earnings and prices to the most recent date for which figures are available.
Written Answers. - Earnings and Prices Statistics.
200.
Updated estimates of the kind requested by the Deputy are given in the following table for the latest period for which all relevant information is available. In deriving the estimates the earnings data used are for average earnings of male industrial workers in transportable goods industries, reduced by the appropriate social insurance contributions and by the income tax payable by a married man with two young children, related to the corresponding average hours worked.
Approximate number of minutes which a man with a wife and two young children, on average earnings of male industrial workers (net of direct tax) would have to work to pay for each of the following items.
|
1979* |
|
|
Items |
June/May |
|
Minutes |
|
|
Weekly rent of a new 3-bedroom local authority house (Dublin) |
307 |
|
Weekly mortgage payments (interest and principal) net of tax relief in the first year after buying a house at the average price for second hand houses in Dublin assuming 25-year mortgage and 72% of price advanced by building society |
1,323 |
|
3 lbs. of beef sirloin (roast) |
160 |
|
2 lbs. of fresh cod (cutlets) |
61 |
|
14 lbs. potatoes (not adjusted for seasonality) |
50 |
|
Large loaf of bread (unsliced) |
10 |
|
Half a pound of tea (medium quality) |
17 |
|
1 quart of fresh milk |
8 |
|
Ordinary return rail ticket between Dublin and Cork (valid 3 months) |
691 |
|
5 cwts. of coal (in Dublin) |
469 |
|
5 gallons of petrol (top grade) |
171 |
|
Postage on five letters (within Ireland and to Great Britain) |
17 |
|
One telegram of twelve words (within State) |
30 |
|
20 cigarettes (untipped) |
18 |
|
1 pint of stout (draught) |
16 |
|
1 glass of whiskey |
29 |
*June 1979 earnings; May 1979 prices.