ah lads come on. have you seen the amount of tax FR pays (prob not as much as it should) but still quite a bit. All new joiners have to pay tax in Irl so box ticked there. With the new legislation you cannot claim your tax back if you live and work in Girona (for example) so Irish coffers are getting some much needed revenue. (I think this is against the double taxation agreements in the E.U, but even so we'll see how it pan's out) My long winded point is FR is a big fish, Irl Inc is broke, so to conclude, all that nice chat from labour about union's will come to squat. But that's my opinion. I hope that I am proved wrong.