Jude Weber
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82 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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There are big gaps in Ireland's infrastructure across the board that aren't in step with it standing as one of the richest countries in Europe.
Really, it has a lot of ground to make up.
Yeah, it's a nice problem to have, isn't it?
Ireland is the base for a lot of big US companies.
You mentioned Apple, there's Microsoft, there's Eli Lilly, all of these big corporations that have set up in Ireland, sort of initially attracted by lower corporate tax rates.
It's a gateway to Europe.
So a lot of them have set up European headquarters or big operations in Ireland.
And because they have their intellectual property here,
They pay tax in Ireland.
So all of this flows into Irish coffers, even though this doesn't exactly reflect production in the Irish economy.
Well, Ireland has a big capital spending plan, an infrastructure spending plan.
For example, right now it's building a big children's hospital.
It has road, transport, all of these other plans.
You know, there are big gaps in Ireland's infrastructure across the board that aren't in step with it standing as one of the richest countries in Europe.
Really, it has a lot of ground to make up.
So the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, which is an independent budget watchdog,
has a new report out today warning that Ireland's just blowing through its corporate tax bonanza at a terrific rate.
The problem isn't that it's spending the money.
I mean, it has this enormous firepower from these surpluses.
The problem, according to the Fiscal Advisory Council, is that it's spending so fast, but also that it's just blowing through its budget all the time.
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