Shamrogue, the CSO shows the 2011 population at 4.58 million, 1.82 million are working, 304,000 are not working. So that's 39% of the population are working, not 85%.
Its also worth noting that 1.3 million are not in the labor force, and about 1.3 million are under the age of 15.
That's quite a small working population to finance the required repayments
It will be interesting to see what happens in the Budget.
Mutt
(This should be message 236, following Shamrogues....)