In this sense, CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) could be a core infrastructure for new convenient private payment solutions as well as a complement to pre-existing private payment solutions or those which might emerge in the future.
This provided greatly enhanced employment opportunities for those who had not been in the work force before. It facilitated the employment of a continuing movement of labour out of the agricultural sector. It also supplied off-farm income opportunities for farmers. Immigrants, both returned Irish and others, were readily absorbed.