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So Willie comes out and says how terrible this whole Shannon thing is. Why did it take him 8 days to come out with that. Something tells me he was hoping it would blow over. Afraid not Willie the ball was dropped on this. Richard Delevan has an excellent piece in the tribune about it about how the argument is all wrong and how we really are not thinking ahead.
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Mary Harney’s expensive trip to Houston and Phoenix.
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I would disagree with Richard in that Heathrow is a key instrument for foreign business. Heathrow is the second most used hub in the world, it is virtually essential in securing the support of the accounts departments in many major international corporations.
We use the FDI model so we have to live by the FDI model. That means adapting to international will, as we are so often told. Part of that will is to be connected to Heathrow. Execs take up a small part of a plane but carry a large amount of job creating potential and they want/need to fly through Heathrow. Its on their way.
Your right on Willy tho, the craven image of government in the face of big issues is almost typified with the carry on over the last few days, no more so that Willy “Cromwell”.
I think Richard’s point was more about why Aer Lingus left. What policies done by the government or not done in this case have led to them moving to Belfast. Limerick has had Shannon for about 50 years at this stage. Why has it not developed that much. I think that is basically the point
There are 1000s of jobs in the shannon/limerick region. What more can you want in terms of development.
oh! you mean roads, misc transport, broadband, decent housing, planning for water and other services (or we can just boil our drinking water), decentralisation, upgrade and use of amenities - like the river, education standards, post-education opportunities, arts and sports and so on and so forth
well most if not all of that is centrally funded as the local authorities have minimal power to raise revenue - and anything they can do through rates is likely to have an adverse effect on the local business community anyway. Not that that matters as they are all too busy bickering over their miniscule piece of the pie anyway -e.g. boundary extensions, and this prevents them putting forward an integrated, co-ordinated approach on almost anything.
So the government policy was to encourage jobs into the mid-west region, particularly the Shannon Free Zone and then provide less than the minimum to support those jobs and the related communities, except for an airport. And now they are taking away one of the bug pluses of the airport - a hop through Heathrow to literally anywhere where you can do business.