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Foreign investment pumps up Irish economy

Ireland’s economy grew at a rate about four times the European Union average last year, according to official figures.
thetimes.co.uk/article/foreig…
The Central Statistics Office said yesterday that the country’s gross domestic product, used as a broad measure of economic activity, expanded by 8.2 per cent. The average rate of growth across the 28 nations in the bloc was about 2 per cent.
“Although Ireland’s economic growth rate was likely distorted by foreign companies, gross national product, a measure of economic activity that strips out the profits of multinationals, rose by 6.5 per cent compared with the previous year.”

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“It is because of a combination of a culture of secrecy, illiberal rules and casual obstructions. It is quite difficult to find out what is happening even in cases of fundamental public importance.”

Excellent from @davidallengreen
“The fiction is that justice is open unless there is a reason for a lack of transparency.”

Whilst Supreme Court and some Court If Appeal hearings are televised the bulk of cases are heard in lower courts.

Court reporters are a dying breed. Transcripts expensive.
Legal aid cuts mean that access to legal advice is much curtailed

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This is pretty scary when you note the assumptions (Brexit, anyone? Corbyn? ) and the consequences.

We would have to HALVE public spending in other areas EVEN ID awe maintained the same % tax revenue

@EdwardJDavey @joswinson

Is this built into your economic planning?
2/ “The UK ranked 20th out of 36 countries in the ...OECD group of advanced nations in 2017 – and fourth in the G7 group of the world’s largest advanced economies – when ranked by the size of tax revenues relative to national income.*
3/. Attitudes to taxation varies from country to country with the U.K. mostly favouring taxation in return for provision unlike the USA.

Not the low tax/low provision model favoured by most Quitter. ERG types..and problematic anyway with the Brexit revenue hit.
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These countries have the highest share of electric vehicles with Norway bagging the prize on new electric car sales.

But the subsidies end in Norway in 2020.

What then?

weforum.org/agenda/2019/03…
Buying and running a car in Norway is an expensive undertaking. The recently combined car tax and insurance levy is calculated on vehicle weight and emissions; it could add anything between 29% and 100% to the purchase price...but until 2020, electric cars are exempt.
It might be helpful to have more details about av salaries, state subsidies, national debt if we are to understand better the obstacles to moving to electric cars.

For me, in the UK
1) They are too expensive
2) My garage will only take a Fiat 500 comfortably. No electric models!
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