Rising cost of doing business driving business out of Ireland

[Oriel27]

Yep up the 32 county free market Republic.

Bring in nuclear power, one private sector built station ought to be enough, it would keep energy costs down.
Privatise Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports.

to hell with your republic, look at what it has done to us now...

I see the ESB are going to raise prices next year..

I dont know is it just me, but im really really scared for ireland..

and yet i were out last weekend in monaghan town and ye would swear there were boom times. the pubs and disco was packed. everyone throwing 50 euro notes at the bar..

another exam of rip off republic, the night club in the town (the 4 seasons), dont serve points, just bottles of beer at 4.70 euro a bottle.

[macdarawhitfield]

Cut electricity prices by 40% after half the gombeens in the ESB are summarily laid off and replaced by labour at half the wages.
Cut the minimum wage to €6 euros per hour.
Cut public sector pay by 10-25% thats only for starters,
Introduce compulsory downward rent reviews for the next 4 years.
Break up the VHI into separte companies and privatise these companies.
Introduce free market competion on the local bus and national bus services.
Cut the price of Gas by 40%.
Abolish all defined benefit pensions schemes, the public sector workers will have their pension determined by the stock market just like us mere mortals in the private sector.
Introduce legislation whereby multinationsl are legally entitled to summarily cut wages by 15-20% and the workers in the union recognised foreign companies can't go on strike.
Abolish all employers PRSI.
Cut corporation tax to 5% as a temporary measure for the next 5 years.

Thats some solutions I'll be back for more.

Just for now I must assume you are a Unionist troll.Most republicans and FF/FG folk would certainly vote us back into the UK rather than entertain these ideas.

Cut the minimum wage to 6 euro.Fine as long as the maximum is 12 euro.The rest of your post is just bog standard PD stuff that got us all into this shythole in the first instance.Republican,only in the sense that George W Bush was a member of a party by that name.

Race to the bottom you reactionary old fartbox!

[macdarawhitfield]

to hell with your republic, look at what it has done to us now...

I see the ESB are going to raise prices next year..

I dont know is it just me, but im really really scared for ireland..

and yet i were out last weekend in monaghan town and ye would swear there were boom times. the pubs and disco was packed. everyone throwing 50 euro notes at the bar..

another exam of rip off republic, the night club in the town (the 4 seasons), dont serve points, just bottles of beer at 4.70 euro a bottle.

I fear for your sanity and give up on your literacy.They only serve goals ,it would appear,not points.

Still, as a new Unionist ,what do you care?

[ergo2]

Have talked to a number of exporters of goods and services. Costs are too high here.
Energy costs in particular are a big worry. If it is true that the average wage in the ESB exceeds €70K, changes need to be made.

[Oblivion]

I fear for your sanity...

You'll probably never know the level of Oriel27's sanity/insanity.

However, if you think you might be a psychopath, you can look at the classic psychopath comprehension test developed by Stanford University and see how you do ( I got it correct!! ).

[MichaelR]

Yep up the 32 county free market Republic.

To really get "them" annoyed, I suggest: "32 County Capitalist Free State"

[True Republican]

Have talked to a number of exporters of goods and services. Costs are too high here.
Energy costs in particular are a big worry. If it is true that the average wage in the ESB exceeds €70K, changes need to be made.

Yep I fully agree, fire the staff in the ESB and replace them with staff on half the salary, still what are Irish people doing to boycott these rip off establishments, surely there should be a consumer week of action whereby all users of the ESB, Bord Gais and other terrible semi state companies refuse to pay their bills.

[fiannafailure]

Yep I fully agree, fire the staff in the ESB and replace them with staff on half the salary, still what are Irish people doing to boycott these rip off establishments, surely there should be a consumer week of action whereby all users of the ESB, Bord Gais and other terrible semi state companies refuse to pay their bills.

I think you could accomplish more with less pain, by simply requiring the electricity regulator to generate electricity at the lowest cost and have true competition in the market, as opposed to a cosy club of semi state companies

[Elvis Parsley]

He would never get planning in Ireland for all those tunnels/R and D centres

He would have had a couple of years ago