Ireland under Kenny's Leadership

 

Google, homelessness and a shrinking unemployment rate: a look at the figures that will come to define Enda Kenny’s  leadership legacy—for better and worse.

  • 2,277: days in power on 1st June 2017.
  • €197,000: Enda Kenny’s average salary between the 2011 election and the end of 2016. 
  • 14.4%: the unemployment rate in February 2011 when Enda Kenny was elected Taoiseach. 
  • 6.2%: the unemployment rate in April 2017. 
  • 2.59%: average inflation rate in 2011. 
  • 0.01%: average inflation rate in 2016. 
  • 7: words [the homeless] “don’t want to come off the streets” – Enda Kenny’s opinion on the homeless in 2016.
  • 4,588,252: the population of Ireland in 2011. 
  • 4,761,865: the population of Ireland in 2016.
  • 3.8%: increase in the population of Ireland between 2011 and 2016. 
  • 173,613: increase in population from 2011 to 2016.
  • €13,000,000,000: Apple’s Irish Tax bill.
  • 2.7: Doctors per 1,000 population in 2013 
  • 20: Ireland’s rank in 2015 for disposable income within the 38 OECD countries. 
  • 3,808: the number of homeless people in Ireland as of April 2011.
  • 7,472: the number of homeless people in Ireland as of March 2017.
  • 679: drug related deaths in 2013.
  • 26: seats lost by Fine Gael in the general election 2016.
  • €22,600,000,000: Google’s EMEA revenue from controversial advertising sales business in Ireland in 2015.
  • €47,800,000: tax paid by Google in Ireland in 2015.

 

 

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