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Households spend more on housing than food for first time ever

Figures from the CSO also revealed people are spending less on tobacco and alcohol and drinking more at home.

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HOUSEHOLDS ARE SPENDING more of their budgets on housing than on food, for the first time ever, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

The Household Budget Survey (HBS) showed families are spending 6.2 per cent more on housing than in 2005. However the figures also revealed that households are spending just 16 per cent of their weekly budget on food, a decline of 1.9 per cent on five years earlier.

This survey was the first HBS where the reported proportion of total household expenditure for housing exceeded spending on food.

Average weekly expenditure in 2009-2010 for all households was €810.61, just 3 per cent higher than the figure recorded five years earlier.

The report also showed spending on transport fell by just over 5 per cent from €122.74 per week in 2004-2005 to €116.31 five years later which the CSO said was due to a decrease in expenditure on car purchases.

Alcoholic drink and tobacco expenditure decreased by 16.3 per cent with some 41 per cent of total expenditure on alcohol related to drinks consumed at home.

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  • Ever since i bought my home, the mortgage has cost more than any food bill I’ve ever had and that’s going 5 years now.

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  • WTF,spending on transport has fallen?That has got to be the worst,lying statistic ever.Who are they trying to fool?I have never heard of the price of fares or fuel going down.Another case of twisting the facts so tightly that some of their lies sounds credible,…….incredible.

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  • lmao, i am a single mom, mortgage holder, mortgage insurance, house insurance, car to take kids to school, and 15 euro left for food, yes am looking for a job, desperately, yes behind with mortgage and getting threatening letters, behind 400 and they say will cost 5000 to go to court,,others looking for tax, others looking to take childrens allowance, that means no elec or heat till i get a job, welcome to ireland, killing the middle classes, yes i am 50 never been unemployed in my entire life since i was 16, and depressed, hate getting up in morning and nothing to do, how many times can one walk the streets looking for work, my phone cut off, so guess wont be getting any follow up calls, have no idea where to go or what to do, but a bag of spuds and packs of soups go far thankgod, but our ministers racking in pensions, same bankers who corrupted the country now making more money, they go to court and get fined 3500 at most while we pay judges and barristers way more than that, and gilmores nose so brown from been stuck up endas ass, guessing labour is now fg, what a country we live in, all a joke to politicians, who have to have some in with the troca, as they aint been hit or mentioned,,,, can go on but wont,

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  • Lads you need to get those calculators fixed and stay away from the brandy, do these people really think we are all that stupid

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  • So there is a fall on people driving to work as they cannot afford to,or they have no job in the first place,spinning facts to make it sound positive.The truth being,’nobody can afford to buy cars,let alone fuel them’,and when they resort to getting the bus,half of the service is curtailed to save money,adding yet another hours travel………..or should I say WAITING!

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  • Duh!

    I am renting at €600 P/M.

    Weekly shopping costs €80 – €100.

    How did ye figure that one out!

    And as for petrol prices – Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ya right!

    That’s one of the main things that the prices have hiked flaming up in.

    And for people with mortgages, don’t forget their,s a 0.5% charge also coming yer way.

    F**THE BANKS! and their Bailouts!

    - that the Irish Citizen is going to pay for through “taxes and charges”

    I wonder how much our governments wages are going to be cut down?

    So we live on less than €35,000 a year, and they live on more than 100,000 a year, yet we,re the ones who have to tighten our belts???

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government

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  • this humours me.god help you all when next years budget comes out.

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