Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Indeed we may have one of the best economies in Europe but there's this little matter as of end of may 2022. IRELANDS NATIONAL DEBT

Now I'm no economics expert but it would seem to me that even before the Irish government started shaking this mysterious magic virtue signalling money tree, we were in serious trouble. Now we've got inflation (albeit government actually making more in tax and excise receipts) and cost of Borrowing increasing, the Irish government in no position to be virtue signalling on the world stage when there's numerous crisis at home that require urgent and immediate attention.

Grim reading dempo, they're will be no Kumbaya for paddy Irish man this coming winter, ofc it will be alright for the small number of posters on this thread who are all for screwing over the country living in their parents basement's with their BS virtue signaling, they'll be okay, so I guess that's all that matters.

Of course there are those who think, a sure €239 billion in national Debt is only 58% of our GDP and sure its grand, our economy is utterly dependent on a relatively small number of companies. The pandemic has exposed how fragile Irelands economy is, Retail and Hospitality sectors continue to struggle and enormous debt warehoused.

I'm not suggesting collapse but prudence and yet the astonishing recklessness continues and its beggar's belief. We've government continously telling us there's no Magic Money Tree and yet, look at what's going on, it's extraordinary.

Germany’s national debt is more like €3 trillion but I do agree Ireland’s is totally out of control. We are in deep trouble if/when interest rates rise and tax take falls. Absolutely nothing was learned about prudence with the public finances since 2008. It’s like our state is in self destruct mode

You should open your door to a family or two really if you haven’t already.

Indeed. Governments allover Europe are addicted to big spending, big welfare and big government. Ours is one of the worst relative to the population size.

If it was being spent on something useful like building up the infrastructure of the country to generate future wealth I’d say something but it’s being whittled away on fluff and stuff that enriches government cronies and insiders

Infrastructure as ever is a perennial Achilles heel be it transport, medical, housing.

The hysteria of the covid lockdowns was 100% government created and led. Lead to so much of the problems you outline.

On top of all this the current mining of fools gold of filling hotels with Ukranian refugees for short term gain is lunacy for the tourism industry in the long term, the one hotel in my local good sized county town no longer does breakfasts save for croissants and the like, I wonder if something is afoot with it having recently changed hands. I often think I reside in a cod of a country undeserving of independence.. I hear them on the news talking about border polls, its like a parallel universe, sure we can't even govern what we have properly.. A united Ireland, for what?? So we can put on a ginger wig and dress up as a leprechaun and Lep around like eegits on March 17 every year and pretend we have a country

Couldn't agree more. As for no breakfast service, I suspect amongst other reasons they are struggling to get Chefs, I'm available for a substantial fee if you want to pass on my details 😁 although slapping up a decent breakfast not overly challenging, so to speak 😉