12 jobs in a rural area is worth 1,200 in a large urban area?

[Schuhart]

So says Willie Penrose, when raising the case of a constituent seeking a bank loan. We can note in passing the rising danger of bank lending policy being set by TDs, and speculate if their criteria will be any better than the criteria used thus far.

The real question I wanted to raise is the mindset that suggests (count'em) that it would be worth leaving 99 people on the dole if it created one job in rural Westmeath.

Is this the kind of thinking that will assist us in improving our affairs? In this context, is location still all that matters? Would we not be better off if 99 jobs were available elsewhere in the country for Willie's constitutents to apply for without having to leave the country?

How is it that this comment, ludicrous when you just pause and reflect on it for two seconds, goes by without comment?

[juanpablo]

Another example of our parochial attitudes taking precedent over whatever party affiliation is supposed to stand for. Between this and Enda Kenny today calling for Metro North to be scrapped whilst presumably WRC phases 2&3 go ahead its clear this countrys potential opposition coalition is as morally bankrupt as our present Government and out of sync completely with what good governance is about.

[red-365]

12 people losing a job in a village of 100 people is the same for that village as 1,200 people losing their job for a town of 100,000. That's all it means.

[alonso]

12 people losing a job in a village of 100 people is the same for that village as 1,200 people losing their job for a town of 100,000. That's all it means.

but that's meaningless. What matters to the Country is the scale not the relative scale. This is the thinking, Penrose's- not yours, that has this nation crippled in terms of infrasrtucture and economies of scale


righht i'm off t' pub

[wysiwyg]

I wouldnt go as far as saying that 12 jobs equates to 1200 between rural and built up areas, but it must be pointed out, that around 300 people in West Tipperary lost their jobs in the same week as 1900 were told they were being let go from Dell..

There were no TV cameras, no task forces set up... and no solutions as to how these jobs might be replaced

We don't all live in built up areas

[Gimpanzee]

whilst presumably WRC phases 2&3 go ahead...

There was no chance of the third phase happening - and whatever chance there was of phase 2, that went out the window late last year.

[Gimpanzee]

I wouldnt go as far as saying that 12 jobs equates to 1200 between rural and built up areas, but it must be pointed out, that around 300 people in West Tipperary lost their jobs in the same week as 1900 were told they were being let go from Dell..

does that 300 include people working in Dell?

[juanpablo]

There was no chance of the third phase happening - and whatever chance there was of phase 2, that went out the window late last year.

With Enda and Gilmore looking likely as a future tag team i can see WRC 2&3 being a lot closer to reality then any other proposed major rail project.

[midlander12]

Yeah, this is the spanking new super-popular Labour Party for you. I live in Penrose's constituency and he is forever whinging abt the delay in decentralisation a govt department to Mullingar while the party nationally opposes decentralisation because of its support among Dublin public sector workers. He is a very nice man but has never had an original political thought in his life, or at least not one that he voiced. And he's the only Labour TD, and head of the only large-scale Labour organisation, between Kildare and West Galway!!

[Gimpanzee]

With Enda and Gilmore looking likely as a future tag team i can see WRC 2&3 being a lot closer to reality then any other proposed major rail project.

No chance. The piggy bank is empty. And there is nothing in it for Gilmore or Labour at all.