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    What could Ireland buy with €13bn Apple tax?

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    1. johnfuckingtravolta on

      The hospital one is a good one. However, the current one isnt finished. So it may well still take a nice chunk of that Apple money by its own merit

    3. seeilaah on

      While I love the idea of giving everyone from Kildare their own Tesla I may have to go with the Macbooks, so in a way we are giving Apple their money back.

      Sorry people of Kildare, hope you can forgive me. I promise to buy things on your Outlet village which makes me travel 1h to pay 10% less on old stock no one wants in xxxl sizes.

    4. 7up_man69 on

      I wouldn’t mind a MacBook..

      On second thought there’s probably things more important than a new laptop for me

    12. Freamhacha_Teaghlach on

      How about actually planting & maintaining real native forests, culling invasive animals and fixing the damage done to our rivers & lakes!
      Real long term benefits to our country & future generations

    13. Keyann on

      I’m a pessimist, obviously, but if we could trust the accuracy of how we end up at cost figures for large capital projects this would be excellent. However, if and when the metro, for example, finally gets completed, it will cost over €13bn. We’ll piss away €13bn without much to show for it.

    15. cavemeister on

      My fear is what will the ramifications for Apple maintaining a presence in Ireland. A 13 billion euro kick in the nads is going to hurt, no matter who you are.

    16. NoKaleidoscope2477 on

      It’s not for “day to day spending” says Micheal Martin. So probably for FFGs pension pots so.

    17. SmallWolf117 on

      Nice graphic, although its missing something truly relatable.

      13 billion / ~5 million irish = 2600 / 5 (average pint) = 520 pints per person on ppp

    19. Mundane-Inevitable-5 on

      I have no idea how much it would actually cost, probably more than 13bn (probably much more knowing Ireland) but I’m of the opinion that an all island, well connected, high speed rail network, similar to Japan could go a long way to solving a lot of problems. I mean it’s not a big area of land, surely with a high speed rail network any part of the country could become a feasible work commute for any other part of the country, making it possible for example to live in Donegal, but work in Dublin or Cork everyday.

      I think that would help ease the housing crisis for one. It would also rejuvenate rural Ireland as more people would have the option to live there, but work in cities, which in turn would lead to local economy growing in rural areas to accomdate new residents and also I think it could stop the island from completely becoming an economic city state, which let’s be honest, it’s not far off being already.

    29. YngSndwch on

      Some really good suggestions here! But I haven’t seen the most likely outcome suggested yet.

      “Disappear into the ether”

    32. RecoveringTreeHugger on

      Can I exchange the apple laptop for different brand?

      Since it’s apple tax money and we’d be giving it straight backto them, maybe they’d give a better rate?

      Or

      We could finally have our own Las Vegas in the hills of Donegal.

    33. WolfOfWexford on

      Can we just get Apple to build housing? They’d surely do it better, on time and in budget compared to our Government!