But thats assuming we had people in government who had a clue...
Exactly. They seem to take the same model to employment - reduce incentives, reduce capital spending and increase taxes, they then rant on about how they're all for cutting unemployment (when the rate of 14% remains stagnant/increasing). Lets face it, this country is run by buffoons who aren't in Government for the national interest they're there for the pay, benefits and the ''doss''. There's little hope of change either a party opposite which managed the near obliteration of the Irish economy, a party who only 10 years ago carried out murders to justify there stance as ''Political Prisoners'', and a Party who seem to think there's an easy way which there is not. What the Government needs to understand is you
DO NOT tax a sector of the economy which is growing, creating employment. This is what they done to the aviation sector with far bigger reactions by airlines to the existing Global Downturn, They are now doing it to the Internet/eCommerce sector passing ACTA to please our European counter parts, i would hold your breath if your expecting reform and change of many sectors of the Irish economy for the next few years, because they don't have the balls to do anything for the people they represent.