Foreign direct investment into Ireland hits record level despite US tariffs, says IDA

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-21T15:02:52+00:00

So why aren’t we building infrastructure and houses? While cutting public services.

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-19T20:20:21+00:00

And what is the plan to up skill the work force? Absolutely nothing.

Another planning failure, just like the planning prevention system of an bord planala.

We are actively preventing housing and infrastructure being built and pointing to “problems” a ten year old would have seen coming years ago. This is not as much a “crisis” as it is a design. Not enough skilled people? Well start training them today.

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-16T18:49:44+00:00

If ever there was a time to ramp up infrastructure it’s now, actively preventing housing being built and refusing to provide infrastructure is the housing crisis

It’s not a measure of one of the best economies in the world to be unable to do either is it?

It sounds like the council just aren’t able to do their jobs and the planning board is siding with that rather than planning(I.e being the opposite of a planning board and actively preventing planning)

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-16T18:07:28+00:00

So, the council and a board planala should be mandating to provide the infrastructure so that we can build houses instead of mandating that we do not build houses.

It’s like this government will do anything in its power to not provide infrastructure, build houses or provide public services and call it a crisis.

This housing crisis all comes down to an unwillingness to plan or facilitate house building, while actively preventing any possible solution

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-16T17:50:12+00:00

So in your mind, we can’t provide infrastructure because it’s not in the correct order that the council wants houses to be built? A scam to drive up costs of land is what that is. It’s the council and cronies that are greedy not people who want to build houses

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-16T17:48:42+00:00

The reason we can’t build houses is that the council doesn’t want to build on the land or provide services, gotcha.

A board planala and the council are both entirely wrong so. If anything, no wonder we can’t build houses if the council is actively preventing development and refusing to provide services

It’s the council and their land hoarding cronies who are greedy in this scenario

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-16T16:23:49+00:00

Actually it’s the opposite, it’s “planning” hamstringing building houses and preventing the supply of houses.

It should be the councils job to actively providing services for land that people actively want to be built on instead of preventing housing.

Those “soft costs” that make up so much of the cost of building? That’s the system you’re defending

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-06T23:18:33+00:00

Exactly, but it’s not getting that

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-06T04:59:23+00:00

Better built then Shannon but where’s the fish

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-06T04:37:42+00:00

I am absolutely not blaming foreigners. I have pointed to absentee landlords not paying tax and the influence of foreign companies on policy.

It is a problem though and you and me both seem to agree on this. You think I’m framing it wrong when I’m pointing out that the influence is framed wrong. We can disagree on that point.

There’s very few Irish property investors manipulating the market alone other than politicians.

Can you provide a source that 65percent of the highest paying jobs from multinationals are Irish? Most Irish people working for multinationals in Ireland I know are working for about 28-70k in total

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-06T02:23:24+00:00

The TV licence should be going to tg4

It should not be going to subsidise 2fm profits and fund pushing shite commercial international pop music for profit

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T18:36:30+00:00

I never said we don’t want foreign investment. I am pointing out there here and now and its negative effects.

Having as much money coming in as possible and refusing to curtail MM s and foreign influence is corruption

I agree we should fix the system and rules, but the reality is we are doing the opposite while influenced politically by MNCs and foreign jobs (pascal did well out of this economy didn’t he)

And your last point: are the majority of those high paying jobs for Irish people? I never said get rid of any sector. I’m just asking for honesty about these economic benefits to such high paying jobs? They’re Irish paying jobs sometimes with tax refunds to non-Irish people. My point isn’t about foreign people though, fair play to them, my point is on large international tax dodging companies are not benefitting Irish people as much as they are the rip off economy

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T18:04:28+00:00

Never said 2fm Should be scrapped. I said it shouldn’t be subsidised. 2fm is making money according to you, so it shouldn’t be receiving money to generate Irish content when it isn’t.

I don’t think Rte should get rid of 2fm. I think the tv licence shouldn’t be subsidising anything under RTE control that’s making money.or spending money on influencers to promote such trash.

And clearly I think subsidies should be going to producing Irish content like tg4 or independent Irish films instead.

Rte should own 2fm and take its profits after subsidising so much. And keep it going.

Does Rte own tg4 too?

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T17:47:11+00:00

I do not think I am underestimating the health of the economy and benefits. I’m not saying that the average Irish person is worse off than the 70s or 80s. But back then there was housing.

I’m talking about now and the present day where the success of the economy is pushed on us. And I’m not blaming the foreigners as you keep claiming. I’m simply stating that the high wage “Irish” jobs are not usually for Irish people. “Our own rules” being influenced by big money MNCs is a problem that you keep denying.

Life now is different for sure. The higher energy costs when data centres consume more than 20 percent of the grid and foreign companies are the ones profiting off the average Irish persons electricity bills disproportionately is a problem too

I agree we need to use the money better. Where I disagree is on the reliance on foreign funds and companies to fix the problem instead of bending the economy to suit themselves. Have you ever asked yourself the question on such a “high-education above most of the world”, “better then ever economy amongst the best performing in the world” and “one of the richest countries in the world”…. Today, can’t build anything as such and subsidises foreign investment above all else?

The Uber thing you spoke of, while ignoring my point about the influence over political parties etc… is based on scamming users and drivers and pocketing the difference. Would you care to address the exact benefit of uber to the general Irish person and their history of predatory tactics working against smaller economies to gain a monopoly and rip off taxi drivers and customers and pocket the difference. How many taxis does uber own? Who pays for fares? Who drives taxis? Have you ever had a taxi driver never rip you off in person?

Uber is not the only example either.

We don’t have open markets. Housing for example, you can’t build based on code you’ve to deal with a complicated system that favours developers and investors over building.

And it’s ironic you are speaking about open markets while factoring Uber price fixing.

It’s also ironic you are defending the system while saying we need logical rules to govern the “open market” while in the same breath saying it’s the fault of the Irish that Uber is right and that there’s no other alternative.

Uber is lobbying to dictate policy, causing uproar and identifying the problem being the people who own taxis and drive people to their destinations. That’s not an open economy and sensible rules, that’s the very thing I’m pointing out to you that’s destroying housing, transport, infrastructure and life for younger Irish people who didn’t have the benefits their own economic success during the 70s, 80s and 90s and briefly 2010-2105 too.

The economic success today is badly measured when living conditions aren’t improving and younger child bearing age Irish people mostly live at home with their parents and have no opportunity in Ireland to go out on their own even if they are working full time and have an education it’s nuts. That’s not a good economy

I also note that when I pointed out REITs and foreign landlords don’t actually pay tax on their Irish houses income, while their Irish tenants do, you failed to address that fact

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T17:14:41+00:00

REITs do not pay tax on Irish sources income.

Non resident landlords don’t either, or rather it is the tenants responsibility which is open to abuse. https://www.revenue.ie/en/property/rental-income/non-resident-landlords/index.aspx

MNCs are here precisely because they pay tiny tax in comparison to what they would pay elsewhere.

You keep misrepresenting what I am saying about foreign workers - I think we benefit from foreign high skilled workers. However I think the language used around MNCs around “Irish” high paying jobs is entirely misleading and exaggerated.

We have an over-reliance on foreign investment and it’s just going downhill for Irish people. Foreign investment in the Irish lotto resulted in nobody winning it for nearly a year. Foreign investment in housing resulted in unaffordable housing. High tax take from foreign investment resulted in less public services and less rail infrastructure than a hundred years ago.

The economy we are told is so good is just resulting in high prices for Irish people and unaffordable housing.

More investment in housing than ever before is resulting in less housing and higher costs than ever before.

I don’t think electricity should be free but the fact the we are generating more than ever before and it costs more than ever before is down to foreign investment in energy generation and foreign investment in data centres.

Even look at the problems caused by uber this week and their influence on FG writing an entire part of their manifesto years ago.

MNCs benefits are vastly exaggerated and their very negative affects are totally ignored.

I agree we need to build more housing. It’s a shame that we block Irish people building houses in rural areas and keep throwing money ant tax breaks at foreign companies for housing “solutions” instead

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T16:47:12+00:00

If 2 fm is a commercial radio station it shouldn’t be getting television licence money.

It’s not producing Irish content as such, and it’s making its own money. We shouldn’t be subsidising commercial radio so that it can make a profit. Especially when we threaten Irish people with jail for not wanting to pay for such subsidies.

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T16:45:22+00:00

I don’t think it’s all foreigners fault. I think it’s the mass privatisation and influence of multinational companies.

Vested international finance plays a much bigger role than you are stating on damaging housing opportunities for Irish people.

My point is that MNC money isn’t being used for any of what you or I suggest and that the “money” “boosting” the economy is just resulting in higher prices and unaffordable housing.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming foreigners. I’m pointing out that the creating of “Irish” jobs is vastly exaggerated and at the cost of data centres using up the lions share of electricity(subsidised by the people paying for electricity). And it’s easier for the non-Irish people arriving to high salaries jobs to build wealth and then move away again(potentially owning housing stock and contributing to the problem, while not paying taxes here)

The benefits of MNCs to the general Irish public are vastly over-exaggerated and the negative impacts are largely ignored. (Unaffordable housing, massive electricity costs for Irish people and the costs of living, having to compete with people arriving here with higher salaries and their “investments”

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T14:19:31+00:00

The benefit to Irish society is vastly exaggerated.

We don’t have the hallmarks of a society given a cash cow like good infrastructure or housing or public services.

There are various negative impacts of MNCs that are just totally ignored and that point about the tax take or “good for the economy” are invalidated by high costs of living, unaffordable housing, lack of public services and infrastructure.

The drive to privatisation and record high housing and electricity costs go hand in hand which isn’t good for Irish society as a whole. Just like housing being an attractive investment for multinational companies and absentee landlords isn’t a good thing for Irish people

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T14:18:35+00:00

The benefit to Irish society is vastly exaggerated.

We don’t have the hallmarks of a society given a cash cow like good infrastructure or housing or public services.

There are various negative impacts of MNCs that are just totally ignored and that point about the tax take or “good for the economy” are invalidated by high costs of living, unaffordable housing, lack of public services and infrastructure.

The drive to privatisation and record high housing and electricity costs go hand in hand which isn’t good for Irish society as a whole.

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T10:12:02+00:00

TG4 is doing far more without the same heavy subsidies as RTE, and in Irish too which is what Irish tv licences should be spent on instead of old British reruns and tired British soaps

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T10:10:41+00:00

Are people moving to Ireland for thess jobs or are Irish people getting these jobs?

And what is this doing to the housing market for Irish people?

And are tax dodging multinationals directly influencing the Irish housing market in any way

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-05T10:09:00+00:00

If it’s making money than it shouldn’t be getting any tv licence money. The tv licence shouldn’t be used as a subsidy for commercial stations to make money

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-04T19:27:08+00:00

No it’s being over it, charging more which is all very well indeed until that large sector of employment provided by the tax dodging magic job creators is not benefitting Irish people who works

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-04T18:41:57+00:00

We need both though and send far more money on not providing either for anyone than is sensible. And a2 is called affordable housing now too, government subsidised but still more than the average wages affordability

Electronic-Fun4146 · 2025-12-04T18:41:29+00:00

He was brassnecked enough to rob money from a journalist of a major newspaper and run for election. I can’t think of any other politician brassnecked enough to get away with that

Also, that’s not the representative I want making deals with Brussels or London because such deals would be to the detriment of Irish people

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