"Buying Irish could create 6,000 jobs"

LighterGuy · 05-09-2011 03:19PM #1

Quoted from RTE.ie website :

A modest increase in spending by households on Guaranteed Irish goods and services of only €4 a week could create over 6,000 new jobs in Ireland.
New research carried out by Amárach on the impact of 'Guaranteed Irish' on the economy reveals the average household spends just under €16 a week on Irish products and services.
It also shows 83% of Irish consumers believe it is now more important to buy Irish goods and services than it was five years ago.

had to laugh at this :pac:
trying to manipulate/con people into buying more Irish goods. Saying that if you do, more jobs will be created, "SO BUY IRISH NOW!" :pac: .... what a joke.

orourkeda · 05-09-2011 03:21PM

while the rest of us go to lidl

KerranJast · 05-09-2011 03:23PM

What Irish goods and services? Everything is imported bar some basic food items.

Dravokivich · 05-09-2011 03:40PM

KerranJast wrote: »

What Irish goods and services? Everything is imported bar some basic food items.

School copybooks with the GI logo on'em.

mikemac · 05-09-2011 03:43PM

If you don't already know, there is nothing Irish about Siúcra
Think of that next time you buy sugar

We used to have a sugar industry until Mary Coughlan let the EU take it away

mackg · 05-09-2011 03:44PM

irish prostitutes just don't cut it.

dermo88 · 05-09-2011 03:49PM

If buying Irish was cheaper or/and better quality, then we'd buy it. Simple as. If you don't compete you die. No amount of commie bull**** will convince me otherwise.

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 03:50PM

A concerted effort should be made to buy Irish products. it's a disgrace that some foods are imported from 1000s of miles away when we make it ourselves.

Professey Chin · 05-09-2011 03:50PM

orourkeda wrote: »

while the rest of us go to lidl

Who buy a lot more Irish Produce then youd think

pmcd22 · 05-09-2011 03:50PM

bad marketing.. create jobs... as harry whould say.. your having a girrafe...

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 03:51PM

Mega Chin wrote: »

Who buy a lot more Irish Produce then youd think

Yup.

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 03:52PM

dermo88 wrote: »

If buying Irish was cheaper or/and better quality, then we'd buy it. Simple as. If you don't compete you die. No amount of commie bull**** will convince me otherwise.

You'd rather buy something with a higher C02 footprint, where the producer was likely poorly paid?

Icyseanfitz · 05-09-2011 03:52PM

yeah lower tax's and start to be competitive price wise and i might buy "irish" if not feck off

alwaysadub · 05-09-2011 03:54PM

I buy what i can afford these days tbh, if it's cheap and tastes good i don't care where its from.
i do try buy Irish meat though.

Icyseanfitz · 05-09-2011 03:54PM

Gumbi wrote: »

You'd rather buy something with a higher C02 footprint, where the producer was likely poorly paid?

the consumer (bar a few) dont give a rats ass about their carbon footprint, what they do care about is the price difference between buying irish and buying stuff online etc.

Cian59 · 05-09-2011 03:55PM

Generally, My shopping would consist of 20% of Irish goods (20% of value of goods purchased). My receipt breaks it down for me.

I wouldn't prioritise Irish goods over foreign ones, however if it came down to nearly identical foreign and irish products, I would choose the Irish one

phasers · 05-09-2011 03:56PM

Gumbi wrote: »

You'd rather buy something with a higher C02 footprint, where the producer was likely poorly paid?

If it's cheaper then yes. Girl's gotta eat

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 03:59PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

the consumer (bar a few) dont give a rats ass about their carbon footprint, what they do care about is the price difference between buying irish and buying stuff online etc.

Agreed, but I don't think this philosophy should be labelled "commie bullsh!t".

mikemac · 05-09-2011 04:01PM

Buy what you want

But I've wondered about Ireland importing Evian and Volvic
They're not cheaper and they're not any better then the Irish brands

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 04:03PM

Hmmm... There are more overweight than underweight people in Ireland. There definitely isn't a lack of food, at any rate.

Greentopia · 05-09-2011 04:03PM

dermo88 wrote: »

If buying Irish was cheaper or/and better quality, then we'd buy it. Simple as. If you don't compete you die. No amount of commie bull**** will convince me otherwise.

Ah, one of these paranoid sees reds under the beds everywhere types eh? :rolleyes:
What we're talking about has got nothing to do with political ideology, no matter how much you try and shoe horn it in. It's about whether we should be buying more Irish produced goods that favour local producers and farmers.

Dyr · 05-09-2011 04:06PM

IBEC call for patriotism in times of need:
"Buying irish could create 6000 jobs...for Asians and Poles"

4leto · 05-09-2011 04:06PM

I would say this is true, I know we import a hell of a lot of food stuff from the UK,

But we probably export a lot of food stuff to the UK, besides how would you know what is made in Ireland anymore.

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 04:06PM

Greentopia wrote: »

Ah, one of these paranoid sees reds under the beds everywhere types eh? :rolleyes:
What we're talking about has got nothing to do with political ideology, no matter how much you try and shoe horn it in. It's about whether we should be buying more Irish produced goods that favour local producers and farmers.

Precisely.

Gumbi · 05-09-2011 04:08PM

4leto wrote: »

I would say this is true, I know we import a hell of a lot of food stuff from the UK,

But we probably export a lot of food stuff to the UK, besides how would you know what is made in Ireland anymore.

There'd be some form of sticker on it. "Guaranteed Irish" or "Bord Bia" etc. It's generally quite obvious.

Morlar · 05-09-2011 04:09PM

I always try and buy Irish farm produced goods, either at the market or at the supermarket.

Dyr · 05-09-2011 04:09PM

Gumbi wrote: »

There'd be some form of sticker on it. "Guaranteed Irish" or "Bord Bia" etc. It's generally quite obvious.

I think the EU put the kibosh on the auld guaranteed irish logo.

mikemac · 05-09-2011 04:09PM

Gumbi wrote: »

There'd be some form of sticker on it. "Guaranteed Irish" or "Bord Bia" etc. It's generally quite obvious.

That covers Northern Ireland too afaik

4leto · 05-09-2011 04:11PM

Gumbi wrote: »

There'd be some form of sticker on it. "Guaranteed Irish" or "Bord Bia" etc. It's generally quite obvious.

But does that mean it was made here or the company that make that produce has an office here.

Alopex · 05-09-2011 04:12PM

Unfortunately saying "buy irish" will not have an effect when people can get foreign goods cheaper.

We're in a free market people. If you want to buy irish you have to make irish goods competitive.

Greentopia · 05-09-2011 04:18PM

Gumbi wrote: »

You'd rather buy something with a higher C02 footprint, where the producer was likely poorly paid?

I agree but unfortunately many Irish consumers are not as aware and educated about such social and environmental issues as many of our European counterparts are (a legacy of decades of neo-liberalism) and as well as that food is so bloody expensive here anyway so most people won't choose where they spend their money on those grounds but will look for the cheapest food they can find.

I shop in Lidl, Aldi and Supervalue for some things and local butchers, greengrocers and markets for others so I do support Irish food producers where I can. We have some of the finest natural food produce in the world here so why wouldn't I?
I'd be interested to know where they got that figure of 6000 jobs though. How is that calculated I wonder?

"Buying Irish could create 6,000 jobs"

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