How would you spend a €19 billion windfall Apple?

Hospitals and homes.

Have an independent body oversee it's investment in both so it's not wasted.

Eugene Norman wrote:

Dublin is expensive because we don't build enough housing. And we didn't really build slums. Clearly we need more buildings

Who is "we"?

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Dublin is expensive because we don't build enough housing. And we didn't really build slums. Clearly we need more buildings

Dublin needs to start building up. It would be a lot easier to make high volume transport system if there was the volume there to justify it.

511 wrote: »

It would be even better if you guys moved to urban areas instead of expecting urban-dwellers pay for every service yous get. Only farmers should be living in rural parts.

As much as I'd hate living in a city, I wouldn't be opposed to Ireland trying to move more people into urban areas. But it should come with an initiative to recover the islands ecosystems. Our island has been pretty devastated by human occupation.

Has nobody suggested blowing it on hookers and cocaine yet?

Standards in AH are slipping

Nixon Slimy Gingersnap wrote: »

Spend every cent of that 19 billion on an underground train system and a much better tram system that serves more than two lines. We should get a good carriage or two for that 19 billion

Setup a free methadone/heroin clinic on Skellig Michael with pallets of free dutch gold and tracksuits with white socks and free hoodys. Free transport over.

Then drop a big bomb on it...:D

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Ireland may be about to receive a €19 billion back tax windfall from Apple.

How would you spend it?

I would like to see investment in infrastructure projects. Motorways linking all major cities could ease the housing crisis. Making it more feasible to commute from smaller towns and villages that are declining in rural Ireland.
Make quality broadband available nationwide. The next Google or Facebook could as easily base its Irish HQ in the Galway Docks as the Dublin Docks.
Dublin airport and Dublin's cultural reputation being its main advantages.

You do know that there is motorways linking all the cities to Dublin, and in turn linking a lot of them to eachother - M1, M2, M3, M6, M7, M8, M9, M18, M20. Not to mention lots of great national roads.

Irelands infrastructure has vastly improved in the last 10 years. You can drive from Cork to Belfast now without hitting a traffic light with that much Motorway.

What more do you want? A motorway to/from Timahoe so Bridie can get to the nearest shopping centre 15 mins quicker.

I've experience of these motorways, once you get past Portlaoise on the M7/M8 you could be driving for miles before seeing another car.

It is great that we have them there and reduces journey time but we don't have the population around the rest of Ireland that permits the need for our current motorways, never mind adding more.

Sort the infrastructure in Dublin first (and I'm not even from Dublin or live there) you could be an hour trying to get less than 10km in the mornings at rush hour, ridiculous.

An underground rail system for Dublin would be a start. A second runway too for Dublin airport would be on the list. Id give Cork a proper rail system like it used to have too

ScumLord wrote: »

Which is grand if you're going to Dublin. I had to drive from Mayo to Cork at the weekend and it was a nightmare, there's a bit of motorway but after that it's all normal roads where one person doing 60kph means everyone else is stuck doing that speed. The motorway connecting Galway to Dublin doesn't really help most of the people living and working in Galway. While there's a practically empty motorway (in county galway) there for the benefit of people traveling to Dublin airport everyone trying to get to work is stuck in mind numbing traffic.

Plus people are just driving slower and slower these days, the amount of people doing 70kph and slower these days is driving me soft. They seem to assume if they're driving slow they're driving safe, so they can look out the side window, be engrossed in conversation with their passenger and are completely unprepared for anything that might happen in front of their car. We badly need some motorways around the country to counteract these incompetent drivers.

That's my point - there is never a huge amount of cars on these motorways, what was the point in spending all the millions on them!? Better to have them there though I suppose....

Anyway these motorways don't just link to Dublin, there is exits to a lot of major towns on the way to these other so called cities like "Cork", "Galway", "Waterford", and "Limerick".

Ireland has plenty of motorways these days linking many of the cities and large towns to eachother.

I commiserate that driving to Mayo from Cork was a nightmare, but they can't have motorway to every town there is to be honest, you said there was some motorway on the way, some parts of the country can't be all motorway.

What kind of roads do you want around Galway or Limerick etc? Surely there is no need for an M50 orbital road or the like, the population surely isn't enough. Not too sure on how Galway is traffic wise for people working in and around there. But my argument is that so called city's like Galway, want all these roads when their population is only around what, 100,000-ish people, whereas Dublin is near 1,000,000 with the city and the surrounding areas.

As for road users doing under the speed limit, I agree, that is a pain, and can cause delay.

chops018 wrote: »

Anyway these motorways don't just link to Dublin, there is exits to a lot of major towns on the way to these other so called cities like "Cork", "Galway", "Waterford", and "Limerick".

I wrote a reply to the earlier post, but then I saw this and figured there was no point, must be trolling.

FFS, I really hate the "Dublin is the only city in Ireland worthy of the name" rubbish.