Global Irish Economic Forum

SafeSurfer

Will it be the usual nonsense from powerful Irish business leaders such as Peter Sutherland, chairman of Golman Sachs International who advised increased austerity while retaining his 1000 euro per week pension from the public purse from his term as Attorney General in 1981?

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/sutherland-on-euro50000-pension-but-calls-for-cuts-2893656.html

squod

I for one welcome our new economic overlords........




NOT

Guill

Its a smoke screen, most people will fall for it and think that the government are capable of fixing things and that wins votes.

Chuck Stone

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Peter Sutherland ... who advised increased austerity while retaining his 1000 euro per week pension from the public purse from his term as Attorney General in 1981?

We really need to do away with tax-payer responsibility for PS pensions.

And pass some laws that the tax-payer will never again be burdened with the debts of private speculators/banksters.

policarp

Sean Fitzpatrick still has free travel with Aer Lingus because he was a former :)er.

orourkeda

Theres something of the night about that Sutherland lad

policarp

orourkeda wrote: »

Theres something of the night about that Sutherland lad

Shady?

orourkeda

policarp wrote: »

Shadey?

Slim shady

policarp

orourkeda wrote: »

Slim shady

A friend of Berties.
Backs horses?

Notorious97

The government can go fu*k themselves, bunch of two faced cu*ts! Cannot believe all those named are able to get away with this.

Ordinary people will be raped in the next budget while these cu*ts live the dream, anyone who fought for this country will be turning in their graves at how our so called leaders are robbing the people!

orourkeda

policarp wrote: »

A friend of Berties.
Backs horses?

His economic influence greatly exceeds that of Bertie Ahern when you consider his C.V which sets alarm bells off in my head immediately

starbelgrade

Global Irish Economic Forum that way =====>

policarp

orourkeda wrote: »

His economic influence greatly exceeds that of Bertie Ahern when you consider his C.V which sets alarm bells off in my head immediately

starbelgrade wrote: »

Global Irish Economic Forum that way =====>

Donald Sutherland?

orourkeda

policarp wrote: »

Donald Sutherland?

Father of kiefer sutherland

fat__tony

The likes of Sutherland lecturing us about the economy and how we must tighten our belts makes me physically ill.

He should **** off back to Goldman Sachs and not set foot on these shores again.

Oh_Noes

A developing theme with this government seems to be that they expect foreign countries to be the bread and butter of our domestic economy. They talk so much about foreign investment, multinatinals creating jobs, tourism, Ireland's reputation abroad. All these fleeting things that we ultimately have very little control over. At times it's like they're tarting Ireland up to be some kind of sexy prostitute for the rest of the world to throw a few quid at.

I'd like to see a bit more focus on developing indigenous industry and promoting Irish innovation. They seem happy for college students to graduate with a lot of skills just to leave the country while they put their arses in the air for foreign industry to come in with a few jobs for a little while. It might be a good idea to start looking to make some sort of solid link between our own skilled people and our own industrial future.

iPlop

The thing that annoy's me is that idiot Willie Walsh on the news saying we're not competitive enough, thinly veiled as "We need to cut wages more".In my experience the wages are not the main issue, the energy, services, Rent and shipping costs are way too high, currently among the highest in europe.

Gee Bag

Global Irish Economic Forum AKA C*nt Fest

ejmaztec

I'm thinking that most of the people who left Ireland and became very successful, only left here because successive Irish governments were glad to see the back of them, in much the same way that they'll be glad to see the back of the 400000 odd unemployed in the country now.

If I had to leave the country because some Irish government had done nothing about jobs, and they came looking to me for investment years down the line, I would be inclined to tell them to go fuck themselves.