The North Korean Investment Authority a.k.a Entreprise Ireland

jetsonx

Lovely. Every year millions of Euro of taxpayer's money is poured into
Entreprise Ireland. But, their well remunerated staff won't even answer the phones.

And this is the body responsible for attracting investment to Ireland -
God help us. What sort of image of Ireland does this send out? I wonder how many investment opportunities Entreprise Ireland have lost due a lazy work ethic?

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/shane-ross-angela-torpedoes-quango-jaunt-in-the-desert-29907762.html

Hootanany

I hope he finds something juicy

kneemos

We've always known charity CEO's were paid stupid amounts of money.

Stavros Murphy

Are charities and enterprise ireland not sort of mutually exclusive? Or are Charities(big gasp) actually just businesses that benefit their stakeholders far more than any charitable cause??

Femme_Fatale

jetsonx wrote: »

Lovely. Every year millions of Euro of taxpayer's money is poured into
Entreprise Ireland. But, their well remunerated staff won't even answer the phones.

And this is the body responsible for attracting investment to Ireland -
God help us. What sort of image of Ireland does this send out? I wonder how many investment opportunities Entreprise Ireland have lost due a lazy work ethic?

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/shane-ross-angela-torpedoes-quango-jaunt-in-the-desert-29907762.html

Familiar ring - and based on a story from... the Independent!

On what basis is this lazy work ethic?

What's the North Korea thing about?

wazky

In fairness I wouldn't answer the phone either if some plonker from the Independent was ringing.

sawdoubters

from what I see Entreprise Ireland does a good job

bleg

jetsonx wrote: »

And this is the body responsible for attracting investment to Ireland -

Wrong.

Mardy Bum

wazky wrote: »

In fairness I wouldn't answer the phone either if some plonker from the Independent was ringing.

You do know Shane Ross is a TD? One of the few of merit.

wazky

Mardy Bum wrote: »

You do know Shane Ross is a TD? One of the few of merit.

Sure isn't he great altogether?, talks a good talk anyway.

Rabelais

Shane Ross is an entertaining writer. Provocative. Has a bit of gumption and a sense of public ethos about him. He's not too much unlike many of the Sunday Independent journalists. It's entertaining, confrontational, compelling and fairly vacuous. You buy it out of hope and a deep desire to feel faux-outrage.

dxhound2005

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Familiar ring - and based on a story from... the Independent!

On what basis is this lazy work ethic?

What's the North Korea thing about?

It's not even a story, it's an opinion piece. From Shane Ross, former stockbroker, hedge fund manager, Senator and fan boy for Anglo Irish bank. And latterly an all round man of the people based on his humble origins and understanding of the real world.

Born in Dublin in 1949, he is the son of former Senator and prominent member of the legal fraternity, John N. Ross,[2] and the noted gardener and writer Ruth Isabel Sherrington.[3] He was schooled at St Stephen’s School, Dundrum, and Rugby School, before attending Trinity College, Dublin, from where he graduated with a degree in history and political science in 1971.[4] A stockbroker with NCB until dismissed[5] by new owner Dermot Desmond,[6] Ross was Business Editor of the Sunday Independent, Ireland's biggest-selling weekend broadsheet until his election to the Dáil in 2011, when he resigned the post. He is married to Ruth Buchanan, a former presenter and journalist with RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. His son-in-law is Nick Webb, who succeeded him as Business Editor of the Sunday Independent.

RobbingBandit

Mardy Bum wrote: »

You do know Shane Ross is a TD? One of the few of merit.

And Ming is looking at starting a cultivation project, Micka Wallace is a snazzy dresser and the money was only resting in Berties collection of brown envelopes... :pac:

Red Kev

Mardy Bum wrote: »

You do know Shane Ross is a TD? One of the few of merit.

Shane Ross was elected to the Dail on Saturday Feb 26th 2011. On Monday 28th he was on Pat Kenny''s Today show. When asked would he take the €41,000 tax free hand out that all independents get he denied any knowledge that such a payment even existed.

When asked for his opinions on the Seanad he called it "the most exclusive gentlemans club in Dublin". Since then, as a TD, he has constantly called for it's reform. What he fails to mention is that as a Senator for 30 years he failed at any time to introduce any kind of reform in the Seanad, or to even push for it. He has also failed to call for any reform of vast pensions that TD's and Senators get. If he is anything he is utterly two faced.

And he didn't even bother to run in the constituency where he lives (Wickow) instead picking a safer variant in Dublin South.

If you want a good TD, try Stephen Donnelly, that guy has some form of merit. Ross panders to the Joe Duffy school of righteously indignant middle class moaners, who like a good rant and have rarely any good ideas....heer's a quote from that article above....

If Enda were to begin by abolishing Enterprise Ireland he could save an overnight €300m. He could then reduce taxes for entrepreneurs; offer tax breaks to the disillusioned, thrusting young businesses which have upped sticks and headed for Saudi. They would create jobs by the bucketful, jobs that would not need propping up with further subsidies, year after year.

...maybe Shane Ross could explain in some detail exactly where and how we would create bucket loads of jobs for €300 million. And shutting down EI wouldn't save that amount either. But it looks good, sounds good, and the pastel jumper wearinmg brigades will choke on their croissants next Sunday when they read Shane's newest installment of rehashed tripe and vote for him in the next election.

BTW lets not forget his ringing endorsements of Michale "Fingers" Fingleton, nor his raging critiscism of banks who would not give out 100% mortgages during the boom.