> According to the meeting note, Apple also raised how “the slow progress regarding the public infrastructure in Cork is very worrying and hindering Apple growth plans”.
> The document says: “The current roads network is not sufficient to enable 6,000 Apple employees on their daily commute and is also a struggle for the residents, with traffic and transport situation being so bad.”
> The meeting heard “an adequate bus service is also required”.
BigDrummerGorilla on
I have friends that work in corporate advisory, this tallies with what they are saying. Our tax remains competitive, but the country is at full employment now and growing companies are sourcing employees from abroad. Companies are getting annoyed about high housing costs & poor infrastructure, and opportunities have already been lost.
clumsybuck on
If only we had a nice big pot of a few billion euro we could spend to improve infrastructure – but where would we ever find that kind of money?
Every rural indipindint will up in arms but we need to go heavy on urban infrastructure, transport including rail and active travel, and housing only for places getting new infrastructure; Metro North, city centres of Cork and Limerick, separate cycleways, and denser urban development with its own shops, schools, etc.
RebylReboot on
“Nice country you got there. Be a real shame if somethin’ happened to it. “
imranhere2 on
Apple really really care about ireland and the Irish people.
TishouPaper on
Apple should GTFO of Ireland, maybe that’s what would wake policy makers to make better infrastructures.
Icy-Lab-2016 on
Now that the MNCs are complaining maybe our government will start to sort things out.
Willing-Departure115 on
We are the definition of a fat and complacent country. The inability to get big things moving in the right direction in the last decade is screwing us all over the shop – lack of investment in electricity supply, barely any progress on offshore wind; lack of progress that actually reduces the housing backlog; major transport bottlenecks; inadequate provision of services like health. All of this marks negative boxes against investing here, or continuing to sustain an investment here, because it all drives up direct and indirect costs.
We became an FDI powerhouse because we were hungry for it and we moved mountains to make it happen.
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Paywalled unfortunately, but most relevant snips:
> According to the meeting note, Apple also raised how “the slow progress regarding the public infrastructure in Cork is very worrying and hindering Apple growth plans”.
> The document says: “The current roads network is not sufficient to enable 6,000 Apple employees on their daily commute and is also a struggle for the residents, with traffic and transport situation being so bad.”
> The meeting heard “an adequate bus service is also required”.
I have friends that work in corporate advisory, this tallies with what they are saying. Our tax remains competitive, but the country is at full employment now and growing companies are sourcing employees from abroad. Companies are getting annoyed about high housing costs & poor infrastructure, and opportunities have already been lost.
If only we had a nice big pot of a few billion euro we could spend to improve infrastructure – but where would we ever find that kind of money?
Nothing lasts forever
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Every rural indipindint will up in arms but we need to go heavy on urban infrastructure, transport including rail and active travel, and housing only for places getting new infrastructure; Metro North, city centres of Cork and Limerick, separate cycleways, and denser urban development with its own shops, schools, etc.
“Nice country you got there. Be a real shame if somethin’ happened to it. “
Apple really really care about ireland and the Irish people.
Apple should GTFO of Ireland, maybe that’s what would wake policy makers to make better infrastructures.
Now that the MNCs are complaining maybe our government will start to sort things out.
We are the definition of a fat and complacent country. The inability to get big things moving in the right direction in the last decade is screwing us all over the shop – lack of investment in electricity supply, barely any progress on offshore wind; lack of progress that actually reduces the housing backlog; major transport bottlenecks; inadequate provision of services like health. All of this marks negative boxes against investing here, or continuing to sustain an investment here, because it all drives up direct and indirect costs.
We became an FDI powerhouse because we were hungry for it and we moved mountains to make it happen.