Charlie Weston

They do okay and they tend to be good at demanding pay rises, but many people wouldn't have had.

And you're absolutely right, Matt.

You know, if you look at the Central Statistics Office, the figures they put out, they're looking at the last year and the latest figures they had for April was 3.7%.

But you need to recognise that, you know, for example, a chicken uncooked, medium, 1.6 kilograms,

It's up about €1.50 in the last five years.

You know, if you take cheddar cheese, €2.40 dearer per kilogram than it was five years ago.

€2.40, you know, I mean, the price increases have been huge.

And quite often people's wages have not kept pace with that.

So it's a real struggle because you've no choice on a lot of this.

You have to buy food for the household.

Yeah, and I also looked at health insurance, it's up 36%, but you're absolutely right here.

Milk prices are up 43%.

43%!

I mean, these are huge increases.

So there's real pressure on households when you look at that kind of a...

level of increase.

Yeah, you know, as I say, many, many people, and you know, I included, for example, lamb in there and people are complaining at me, it's not a household staple.

It's not because it's got so expensive.

It's 18 euros now per kilogram, for a half, for a leg, you know, and people have stopped buying it because it's too expensive.

The same with roast beef, I put that in there.