Ireland's reliance on Corporation Tax receipts

Ireland did themselves a massive favour voting in the FF/FG government again, booting the Greens out while keeping the nutjobs at bay unlike the US, other European countries and the UK.

Any senior level manager should be looking more favorably on Ireland than ever before.

Housing completions will be around 40k this year, the highest number for well over a decade.

Its not the 50k we would like to see but its moving in the right direction & 40k is probably higher than any of the other political parties would achieve.

It will be close to 40k this year.

You said this last year too 😂😂

Now building more houses achieves nothing, when the aim is to build more houses?

The last line in this article from RTE seems ominous.

There is no doubt that Donald Trump’s policies will have huge repercussions for Ireland

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0315/1502216-donald-trump-ireland/

Still think the changes Trump can make here are limited. He knows that tariffs are the only option he can use to achieve his goals and that's why he is going hard with these. Other than that and using these for short term leverage there really isn't much else. What he needs is Congress and to pass changes through legislation, which isn't going to happen as all Democrats and some republicans are beholden to their donor lobbyists.

We need about 90k a year so not even half what's needed will be built. Another issue is who's going to build them? I come from a family of tradesmen and some of them are way behind on projects because they can't get the workers. More waiting lists for people who are trying to finish their apprentiship but the backlog from the ETB is longer than a year in a lot of cases. Workers sitting at home waiting to work in a housing a housing crisis but can't. Put "waiting lists Irish government" into google and your device will probably explode.

I wonder might you be confusing the official target for what is actually required?

Also, in your surprise that, with population increasing by 100k, we are still short of essential staff, might you be forgetting that, with this increase in population, the requirement for housing, healthcare, education etc. also increases?

This is a very good read from the NYT today and basically trashes everything I said in my previous post.

April 2nd is going to be a very important day it seems and what follows after.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

President Trump’s approach to tariffs has unsettled many corporate leaders who believed he would use the levies as a negotiating tool. As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.

For corporate America, including some major donors, the shock of Mr. Trump’s second term is that it turns out he really does believe the thing he’s been saying publicly for 40 years: Foreign countries are ripping America off, and tariffs are a silver bullet for America’s problems. When he says that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary, he means it.

...Mr. Trump, tariffs are not merely a negotiating tool. He believes they will make America rich again. …

that ship has sailed there is no fiscal management. Politics is short term and not compatible with long term solution. Harris and Martin aren’t solution oriented they are merely sound bite and platitude merchants.

Wow, that sounds ominous.

Saying it and making it happen are two different things though.

Don't think it will be easy for them to repatriate the pharma CT revenue, but tech might be more of a risk for us.

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