Charlie Weston

60%.

That's more than double the overall inflation rate over that period, Matt.

You're talking about...

€2.16 up to April this year.

I looked at, for example, beef prices up 32%.

The pint of stout in a pub, your Guinness, 28%.

Butter, standard one in every house, 42%.

Diced beef pieces, popular in casseroles and for making stew.

up almost 50% in that five-year period.

So extraordinary increases in some of these items compared with the overall inflation rate.

And these are typical items that are bought by households, basically.

Well, it's my understanding that they haven't.

I didn't look at comparing the pay rates now because that's a bigger exercise.

And this was a new departure for me to drill into this data on the CSO's website.

But my understanding is they haven't and you haven't kept pace and certainly are not keeping pace at the moment.

haven't gone up.

And it's cumulative, Matt.

You're absolutely right.

a lot of people wouldn't have any pay rise at all.

I mean, you know, there's pay rises in the public sector and more luck to them.