Gov: ahh sure we couldnt even spend it if we had it lads
bingybong22 on
I think a lot of people fail to realise the fundamental truth of how Ireland works:
We have foreign investment here that provides high paying employment – these employees are taxed heavily which funds the state.
The state is then run by incompetents who waste the money and fail to prevent businesses who sell services to Irish people from ripping them off.
If we kill the FDI golden goose we are absolutely fucked.
hmmm_ on
You can argue about the benefits or lack of benefits of data centres, but this sort of headline is a bad look for Ireland.
We’re getting a reputation for being a very difficult place to build anything, and it’s a deserved reputation. The Government should be allowed set priorities for infrastructure and development, and we need a process to get these things built faster.
funpubquiz on
Everyone knows you can’t build infrastructure over 15 years of government.
oshinbruce on
If it was a pharma plant providing 1000 jobs I would be worried. A datacenter is a minimal employment benefit and alot of that investment money doesn’t come to Ireland anyway.
dubguy37 on
We didn’t get the investment because our electricity grid can’t hack it
Stoogenuge on
Given the risk now around the corporate tax rate and the ongoing infrastructure and construction objections in this county we are going to lose out on a lot of multinational investment and jobs in the future.
Ireland isn’t more attractive than many other EU countries anymore for this type of company.
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Gov: ahh sure we couldnt even spend it if we had it lads
I think a lot of people fail to realise the fundamental truth of how Ireland works:
We have foreign investment here that provides high paying employment – these employees are taxed heavily which funds the state.
The state is then run by incompetents who waste the money and fail to prevent businesses who sell services to Irish people from ripping them off.
If we kill the FDI golden goose we are absolutely fucked.
You can argue about the benefits or lack of benefits of data centres, but this sort of headline is a bad look for Ireland.
We’re getting a reputation for being a very difficult place to build anything, and it’s a deserved reputation. The Government should be allowed set priorities for infrastructure and development, and we need a process to get these things built faster.
Everyone knows you can’t build infrastructure over 15 years of government.
If it was a pharma plant providing 1000 jobs I would be worried. A datacenter is a minimal employment benefit and alot of that investment money doesn’t come to Ireland anyway.
We didn’t get the investment because our electricity grid can’t hack it
Given the risk now around the corporate tax rate and the ongoing infrastructure and construction objections in this county we are going to lose out on a lot of multinational investment and jobs in the future.
Ireland isn’t more attractive than many other EU countries anymore for this type of company.