Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Patrick Boyle"
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I disagree fundamentally with this. There is simply no comparison between Ireland today and Ireland 30 years ago.
The homelessness crisis is almost entirely political in origin, not economic. If the government built houses it could easily resolve the issue. It is government policy not build houses.
The health system is not third world either. It is an expensive and badly managed system, which means accessing it can be difficult. Once you get access, you get the best of care.
About 17% of the population of Ireland was born somewhere else. Many of these people work in our economy doing jobs you and I consider ourselves to be to important to do. If Ireland was as bad as you paint it, these people would not be here and Ireland would look like it did in 1993, white, with high unemployment.
The childrens hospital has cost an incredible amount of money, but the Germans had the same problem with a new airport in Berlin a few years ago. It cost a billion and it had so many problems they considered knocking it down and starting again. The fact is, big infrastructural projects cost a lot more money than projected most of the time regardless of where you live.
Since foreign money started coming into our country, we have improvements all over our country and society. You can best see this in the fact that Ireland's life expectancy at birth has increased and is now ahead of the UK and Germany, for example.
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@michaelstanley5215 I live in Ireland, so I have actual experience rather than something you decided was 'good information'.
Lets drill down into some of your 'good information', shall we:
'People have always been Ireland's greatest export and that will always continue.'
A glib meaningless statement. Emigration is part of Irish culture, but this has morphed into migration for many who leave, as most who leave today tend to return with new experiences, money and a broader mind. Hopefully this will indeed continue.
'The average Irish person is not better off now then they were in the 90s, in fact like everyone else they have went backwards - prices of things like housing and food are astronomical now and the average person is breaking under that strain.'
Thirty years ago the average Irish income was about £13kIRL and unemployment was rife, so how you can come make such a claim is impossible to understand. Expectations of Irish people are much higher now than they were 30 years ago. When compared with the UK, Ireland is much better off, as we have no need for foodbanks, as there is no major 'working poor' class in Ireland, and we don't have widespread destitution like in Britain.
'Ireland seems rich because so many corporations have used it as a tax haven while employing few people directly and paying very little (if anything) in taxes.'
This comment betrays you as a Brit. The British come out with this nonsense because of high profile reports of foreign 'brass plate' companies using Ireland for tax purposes and employing nobody. While these did exist, it is also the case that the majority of 1700 FDI companies in Ireland employ about 250,000 people in Ireland in mostly high end, graduate, level jobs.
'Ireland will not be able to keep up this facade forever and when it crumbles Ireland will be in a worse state then it ever was because it is essentially doing nothing to prepare for this future.'
Everything changes, but unlike the UK, Ireland will have a large sovereign fund to transform its economy in the coming years. What will the UK have? Millions of destitute people, too proud to emigrate, waiting for jobs to come to them, that's what.
You sir, are a bitter and envious British person, and you would be better off fixing your own country instead of trying to pretend the UK is not falling behind the Ireland, a country you obviously look down your nose at.
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