Ireland losing competitiveness

[mmrebel]

A survey by the World Economic forum is saying Ireland is losing competitiveness, we are down 3 places on the last report from 22 to 25 they base their scores on following the top being the the main reason why we a losing our competitveness and so on downwards

Access to financing
Inefficient government bureaucracy
Inadequate supply of infrastructure
Restrictive labor regulations
Policy instability
Inflation
Tax rates
Tax regulations
Poor work ethic in national labor force
Inadequately educated workforce
Foreign currency regulations
Poor public health
Explore The Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 2009 World Economic Forum

and the table http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR...llrankings.pdf

World Economic Forum - Global Competitiveness Report


Wages are dropping as are energy and transport costs surely we should be getting more competitve ?

[netron]

carbon tax.

a sure sign that we've gone over the cliff and are now in the realms of utter lunacy.

[netron]

there's an eco fascist on pat kenny at the moment.
not only does he want carbon tax, he wants congestion charges for Dublin.

[Fr. Fahey]

there's an eco fascist on pat kenny at the moment.
not only does he want carbon tax, he wants congestion charges for Dublin.

Sure sign of decadence when these flat earth imbeciles are blathering on about carbon and congestion taxes when their mouthpieces in Government haven't the balls to do anything meaningful about boosting renewable energy that might actually create jobs but what would the Greens care about such things like jobs!

[mmrebel]

Inefficient government bureaucracy

this is the key this what the international market thinks of Ireland

[Jock_the_Waster]

this is the key this what the international market thinks of Ireland

Foreign business people (think to themselves) are aware of how Irelands Civil / Public Service pay OVER the odds for everything

The CS/PS is incapable of buying a bargain or negotiating in the INTEREST of the HARD pressed Tax Payer

They also know that the Political class are quite fond of themselves and suffer from poor self esteem which the political class attempt to deal with by WASTING tax payers money on their LAVISH expense accounts

1916 was only a start, It was hijacked by ne'er do wells, the honest and community spirited tax payers must organise and rise again

[slx]

While I fully agree, we have major competitiveness issues, I would just like to stress that that list is not remotely representative if you just quote it in full without quoting the percentages that went with it. It is a list of 15 standard questions asked to respondents in each country surveyed.

Respondents were asked about which of those topics were most problematic.

These are the ones we need to worry about:

• [COLOR="Red"]
• Access to financing --- 25.1%
  [COLOR="black"][Fianna Fail incompetence + Credit Crunch / Banking Mess][/COLOR]
• Inefficient government bureaucracy --- 18.5%
  [COLOR="black"][Pure Fianna Fail incompetence][/COLOR]
• Inadequate supply of infrastructure --- 11.4 %
  [COLOR="black"][Pure Fianna Fail incompetence - inexcusable given how much money we had over the last decade][/COLOR]
• Restrictive labor regulations --- 10.9%
  [COLOR="black"][Pure Fianna Fail incompetence][/COLOR]
• Policy instability --- 8.2 %
  [COLOR="Black"][Pure Fianna Fail incompetence][/COLOR] [/COLOR]

These are just minor issues, and may have only been representative of one respondent, and they were standardised questions so people answered regardless:

"Note: From a list of 15 factors, respondents were asked to select the five most problematic for doing business in their country/economy and to rank them
between 1 (most problematic) and 5. The bars in the figure show the responses weighted according to their rankings."

• Inflation --- 5.7 %
• Tax rates --- 5.5 %
• Tax regulations --- 5.4 %
• Poor work ethic in national labor force --- 3.9 %
• Inadequately educated workforce --- 1.9 %
• Corruption --- 1.1 %
• Foreign currency regulations --- 0.9 %
• Poor public health --- 0.8 %
• Government instability/coups --- 0.5 %
• Crime and theft --- 0.1%

[cactusflower]

Cures for the above:

Access to financing......................................... .............25.1%

State investment bank (By nationalising and merging the biggest 2)

Inefficient government bureaucracy.........................18.5%

Sack people who don't do their jobs.

Inadequate supply of infrastructure..........................11.4 %

Reprioritise NDP - build now while construction costs are right down.

Restrictive labor regulations....................................... 10.9%

More mobility between jobs, no non union workplaces.

Policy instability....................................... ........................8.2 %

General election.

[PAD10H]

there's an eco fascist on pat kenny at the moment.
not only does he want carbon tax, he wants congestion charges for Dublin.

would you consider the Secretary General of the OECD an eco fascist?

In the long-term, countries need structural reforms to achieve “green growth”. Green tax reforms and price-based approaches ─ such as carbon taxes and auctioned permits in cap-and-trade schemes ─ are one element of necessary policy reforms.
..................

However, OECD analysis has found that the effects of climate policies on competitiveness are often quite small, particularly if a sufficiently large group of countries take action.

Towards a Green Economy: Policies to Tackle Climate Change

[slx]

I would just like to point out to the OP, that while we absolutely need to be highly critical of the Government on these issues, that it is very dangerous to post deliberately misleading information like that. Please stick to facts!

Without the percentages, that list is just totally misleading.

Misinformation like this gets regurgitated in blogs and turns up in badly written articles, on radio stations etc. That can be very counterproductive and bad for the economy.

Blogging and posting misinformation also totally undermines the ability of those of us who are trying to actually put pressure on the Government to address these issues / step aside and call a general election as they just turn around and 'poo poo' real facts too.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE argue using real facts!