Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
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I mean, if this is positive and negative,
And the answer potentially was this idea that we could suffer the job losses without necessarily, certainly in the short term, getting the plus.
Not to add to the depression on a bank holiday weekend.
But we continually in Ireland talk about the fragility of the corporation tax base.
OK, but this was pointed out to me sort of quite a while ago, theoretically.
And again, it's one of these things that's now coming onto the agenda in a more practical sense.
These are also high taxpayers.
And so to the extent that that fragility is there.
I mean, I know we think we're complete world beaters at the moment of the Irish public finances are an amazing state.
People like me and others continually talk about the vulnerabilities.
And this is yet another vulnerability that's coming to the fore.
No, I think, well, I mean, firstly, just a quick comment on the 80% in the polls.
So this finding now that, you know, 80%, whatever it was, you know, held the view that the supports or whatever like that should be wound down.
I mean, that's an extraordinary, to get an 80% on any question in any poll is quite extraordinary.
But I think we need to be careful to sort of jump to the conclusion that everybody in that 80% is responding for the same reasons.
So there was always a group of people who were sort of, you know, anti-immigrant and very sort of, you know, cautious about over generosity to the group of people.
There will be a group of people there now who are sort of moving and sort of saying, well, the cost of living and everything like that, again, can we support everybody?
But I think there's also a group of people at this stage who would sort of say specifically in regard to the Ukraine war,
That like after four years where people have been here for a long time, there is a sense that there's been an opportunity for them to, in a sense, normalise their sort of their situations.
Now, again, of course, it won't apply to everybody, but, you know, that's a reasonable length of time.
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