Jobs, and more jobs for... Northern Ireland!

[Mouroux]

Just yesterday RTE News aired a story about the New York Stock Exchange undertaking to create 300 (possibly more) jobs in Belfast. Today, more good news, this time for Derry:

RTÉ News: 100 jobs set for Derry call centre

An Indian Call Centre Company will create 100 jobs in Derry.

The NYSE jobs will be tech-orientated and are for the highly skilled.

So what are they doing right? Is Southern Ireland on the right track, but it's a case of delayed results?

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Addendum:

See Tonight with Vincent Browne - TV3 (NAMA and the question 'what if it all goes wrong').

A bank consultant and some other highly respectable finance guy basically come right out and say that Brian Lennihan is either lying or he is in fantasy land... claims also made with respect to huge factual errors. A key issue is whether or not the domestic banks will act in the interests of society or serve themselves in the years ahead -state-owned banks can be forced to serve society. Why are we trusting them to do the 'right' thing?

Another claim made was that our entry into the eurozone was one of the primary causes of the crisis we face today, and in particular it made a major contribution to the property bubble. That said, it was also acknowledged that we cannot pull out of it anytime soon.

So I invite those who oppose the position set out here to watch the interviews and speak to the opinions and credibility of the panel. There is also a rep. from Davy Stockbrokers on defending the government (essentially) but he seems to spend all of his time just trying to muddy the waters... the other consultants were remarkably clear and factual though (imo).

So, banks, recovery, jobs? Are the government just leading us down the garden path... or down the suwannee?

[Prester Jim]

We need to lose Coughlan and fast.

[Aristodemus]

We need to lose Coughlan and fast.

She is embarrassing

[johnfás]

We largely support the creation of these jobs through joint funding with Britain and the EU of improved infrastructure etc in the North. The idea behind it, apart from reinforcing the Peace Process, was that it would be mutually beneficial for both jurisdictions on the island.

Will that continue when it apparently appears that the North disproportionately benefits from such support and does so at the expense of the Republic at a time when unemployment is surging?

It will indeed be interesting to see how hard the Irish Government and related authorities now compete against the North in relation to job creation, and indeed what that will do to relations between the two.

I'm not saying anything either way, but it will be interesting to watch how it develops.

[Sync]

Maybe it's to do with the fact that despite near parity in our currencies, the Northern Ireland minimum wage is £5.80 compared to Ireland's €8.65, and that general wages in the North are subsequently lower.

[Bi ciuin]

Ireland Votes Yes to Lisbon,

We loose Jobs.


The UK are Anti European and the next Conservative government have promised a vote on Lisbon which will most likely result in rejection of the Treaty,

And they are gaining jobs.


WHO ARE THE FOOLS?









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[johnfás]

Maybe it's to do with the fact that despite near parity in our currencies, the Northern Ireland minimum wage is £5.80 compared to Ireland's €8.65, and that general wages in the North are subsequently lower.

Currency is a fairly short term consideration on which to be basing a longterm investment in the current state of flux on the international currency markets. Costs generally are however far lower in the North than in the Republic and wages are certainly a part of that.

[dmc444]

I honestly would not look North for economic advice.

63% of the work force are in the Public sector and it is the most unproductive region in the UK.

Free enterprise and small business start up is nearly non exisitent.

Also some extimates have said that almost 77% of NI ecomomic activity is in the Public sector. That is just madness.

We have to remember this swings in roundabouts, 2 years ago more jobs were created in the south in a month than were created in NI in a whole year and in the decades before that the North was boasting higher living standards than the south with the old "Blue skies of Ulster and the grey mists of the republic".

[Mouroux]

Give it 'til the end of the year I guess -the big budget... I can imagine a massive convoluted series of tax increases... "and that means you actually save, really...well, kind off... but it's more complicated than that etc. etc." How much more total crap will we put up with? That's what it comes down to: no jobs=higher taxes for those who are "lucky" enough to be working. And let's not forget the prospect of strikes across the board. When you go on strike you're not paid... it's all so unproductive.

[toughbutfair]

It is sickening that OUR government has campaigned for UK jobs on some stupd all island principal.

The media reported this story as good news - unbelievable