It does not include them correct. Ditto it ignores the many of the working age population fleecing tax payers by claiming disability allowances and other misc programmes which keeps them off the live register.
These should be ruthlessly cracked down on, however there will of course be shrieking from the same side over doing.
However, those constraints also existed when the graph above was posted, and indeed when Ireland was at âfull employmentâ in the CT days.
I donât fully subscribe to the ILO definition of unemployed, or believe their wider stats on countries (too much lobbing of people in one basket to make things look worse, i.e. you can say someone in part time work is underemployed but a great number of those do that for lifestyle/practical reasons i.e. college).
Under the Kaiser we have moved from a country of immigration to a country welcoming emigrants and we now have more people arriving than emigrants from here.
Not all down to Minister Noonan of course, but a steady hand is what I look for. I am unhappy with the mess that is the housing market and continued wasteful spending in some quarters, but Minister Noonan and the government have stabalised the country and rehabilitated much of our tarnished image on the world stage.
I merely asked a question, Tim, as I wanted to know are you drawing your knowledge from the inside or is it from a genuine interest in politics/economics ⊠And I worked 3 to 4 part time jobs simultaneously during those years, mate. I was able to report on the eating habits of many forumites through two of them.
Very little has to do with Noonan. Irelandâs economy improved because of where it was at the time he came in. He started from a low base. The troika came in and told them exactly what to do. Itâs a pity they left cos the fool is back implementing McCreevy policies. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council have warned him a few times now.
FDI up is because they pay minimal tax and the low rate was a FF idea anyway. His one good policy of lowering VAT for tourist industry was funded by stealing from the private pension pot. Price of oil and low interest rates also contributed.
The upcoming report on his dealings with NAMA, facilitating the sale of assets at below market value and stonewalling Catherine Murphyâs questions on Siteserve are where his true colors lie. Appealing the 13bn even though he trotted out the EU rules on water charges as often as he could.
So on the one hand you are saying Noonan has nothing to do with FDI as it is a low rate FF brought it, but on the other you are criticising him for looking to defend Irelandâs CT rate?
Make up your mind.
I havenât said that FF should be totally left out of credit for the economic recovery. They helped create the far more dynamic business environment we have, but you shouldnât criticise Noonan for protecting that and stabalising the numbers in the country.
This country is far more stable than the rest of the PIIGS because for all the faults in housing policy and obscene public spending, at least there has been governments in place that are pro commerce.
