Faire d'income,
No argument on that one as I know a good number of people who joined Intel who would never and could never leave.
I think the government has to weigh up on the one hand the enormous number of high value jobs the likes of Intel, HP, Microsoft and of course the financial services sector have brought to the Irish economy and on the other hand other industrial relations issues that may exist in other industries.
From a purely financial point of view: who has made the Republic's economy the powerhouse it is today? It's the high value employers. The high value employers don't want the rules to change: whether it's labour rules or corporation tax rules.
Might not be fair for some but that's the way it is.