Monday, Feb 6th 2012
With the IFSC now central to the government’s growth plans, some figures which may be of interest.
The only figure I can find for how much corporation tax the IFSC contributed is the figure for 2010.
it’s €1.4 billion - Dept. of the Taoiseach last July, ( citing a private report, not Revenue, which is interesting in [...]
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton is setting a target of 100,000 net new jobs by 2016 on the eve of the Government’s launch of the Action Plan on Jobs. Does this mean that the Action Plan will create 100,000 net new jobs by 2016? No. Does this mean that without the Action [...]
Protest at cuts in small rural schools Dublin, 1st February 2012
Hundreds of teachers, parents and school children came from all over Ireland to protest at Minister Ruairí Quinn’s proposed cuts to small schools in Dublin when the Dáil was debating the bill.
In October 2011 Pat Rabbtte gave out thirteen licenses to twelve companies (press release here). The amount of blocks left around Ireland can be seen in this PDF map here, and the way it is done in the UK and other countries is explained in this SIPTU document from last year, available here (see pages [...]
The following is from Frank Keoghan of the People’s Movement on the Austerity Treaty. It was also published in the latest issue of People’s News.
The EU Permanent Austerity Treaty will be the final nail in the coffin of the Irish economy, if it is ratified either by the Dail or by referendum. It will also [...]
The positive outcome of the 2011 Atlantic Margin Licensing Round will help bring a new momentum to the level of exploration activity in our offshore. Ireland must continue to communicate the message to international exploration companies that Ireland is open for business and that the Irish offshore has real potential.”
So said Pat Rabbitte, Minister for [...]
As the Joint Labour Committees legislation wends its way through the Dail - a bill that will lead to less protection for workers in many low-paid sectors - it is timely to look at the growth in deprivation for an increasing number in the workforce; namely the low-paid. The CSO defines deprivation by reference to [...]
Press release from Debt Justice Action’s Not Our Debt campaign.
The campaign group Anglo: Not Our Debt has sharply criticized the EU’s new ‘fiscal treaty’. Campaign spokesperson Marie Moran described the treaty as “akin to someone being advised to keep the doors of their house locked tomorrow while thieves were ransacking it today”. “There is something [...]
I have an article on Politico.ie about the Fiscal Compact Treaty, and how all the economic decisions made by the Irish government are not dictated to them by our “EU masters” but follow the usual power template of Ireland’s “comprador class”.
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The final draft of the Fiscal compact is now available, meaning Irish pundits can no [...]
The Government, in signing the Fiscal Treaty, has effectively committed itself to introducing up to €6 billion more in tax increases and spending cuts in the medium-term, over and above what it has already planned. While the news in the short-term will, understandably, focus on whether a referendum will be necessary, once attention starts honing [...]
