The twin-track, increasingly polarising nature of the Irish economy is being used as ammunition by dark forces
The IDA, the agency responsible for the attraction and retention of foreign investment, is viewed internationally as the Real Madrid of state investment agencies with 24 of the top 25 global pharma giants and a who’s who of big tech located here.
Ireland’s conundrum is not whether to follow Boston’s growth model or Berlin’s social model, as if such a binary option existed, but how to leapfrog decades of underinvestment and bad planning, a legacy that has caught up with us in spectacular fashion. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development noted in a recent report that Ireland’s housing crisis can be traced back to a “decade of underinvestment” after the 2008 property crash. While the population grew by 263,000 between 2009 and 2017, the housing stock grew by just 35,000 units, it said.
A briefing document drummed up for the Cabinet committee set up to deal with the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees, seen by The Irish Times, highlights the pressure on public services in areas where many of the refugees have been located.
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