To avoid having to pay much more taxes in 2050, Ireland should recruit workers. Our current posture — surprised and inconvenienced by population growth — is the worst of all worlds.
By any measure, Ireland is better off than at any point in time before. Yet it is also angrier. So, what gives?
If we have learned one thing from the two decades it took to build 72 homes on one Dublin site, it is that the public bodies involved in housing delivery must move from box-ticking to joined-up thinking.
With revenue of €4 million, the central charge against RTÉ in the case of GAAGO is that it is asking licence fee payers to pay twice, once through the fee and another if they take a subscription.
Surpassing the government’s target of 33,000 – as seems possible by 2025 – will be far from sufficient. Realistically, the country needs to be building at least 45,000 homes per year and probably closer to 60,000 homes per year for decades.
European capital markets union rarely makes headlines, yet BNP Paribas’s Derek Kehoe and European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness both insisted on its importance in interviews this week.
The return of Stephen Cluxton and Pat Gilroy reminds Dublin of the standards that are required. Paul Flynn recalls the Cluxton he played with and how different he is to the public image.
Successive Oireachtas hearings have left politicians none the wiser about who to believe, but the bling they have revealed shows the need for a plan to refocus resources on public-service broadcasting.
Ahead of the next budget, it's time to check the economic state of the nation again. Economically speaking, things have never been better. Socially, of course, it depends entirely on whether you have access to assets and services.
We cannot continue to avoid dealing with the funding issue which is at the root of the current difficulties at RTÉ, writes Oireachtas Media Committee member, Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne.
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