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There was a piece with Tom Parlon of the Construction Industry Federation n the six one news yesterday talking about the Pierse Group seeking Examinership in the High Court.
Parlon referred to the fact that Pierse was owed a lot of money and said that he was aware through his organization's members that Nama was holding up payments on monies due to developers - taking up to six weeks to process claims according to hm.
This was contested by Nama, in a direct message to the newsdesk while on air, stating that there was no matter that did not get dealt with after 1 week.
Parlon refuted their position stating that he knew as a fact that this was not the case immediately following hearing of their assertion from Brian Dobson.
My experience of such things is that we could be talking apples and oranges here - one persons "addressing something" might be opening a file and allocating a number, while another person's "dealing with a claim" might be actually paying out the money.
As a member of the architectural profession, if Parlon's Members are getting paid at all they are doing well, better than most.
But his other comments were more telling.
The construction industry back in 2006 accounted for 24% of GDP an unsustainable level - now its down to 6%, it should be around 12%.
It as seen 300,000 jobs lost at all levels.
Parlon also made the point that government departments have not spent their capital allocations for this year.
In my opinion we need that stimulus badly.
In Parlon's estimation, every Billion spent in Contruction is 50,000 jobs and we all know that despite the comments of others on AAM suggesting that many of these are largely foreign workers sending monies home, they have to live here, monies get spent here, tax and VAT are collected here, and so all boats rise.
Taken together with the artificial depression in indigenous industry caused by the banks not lending, the NAMA creature not paying out payments and Government Departments not spending their budget allocations, this country will destroy itself unless someone takes a big stick to these three groups and gets them moving.
Those reading this Forum with government connections need to impress on the Mandarins running the Banks, NAMA and these under-spending departments that they need to fulfil their obligations to the workforce and start spending on Irish jobs.
No-one is seems to be doing ANYTHING to get this country moving again and repair the hole in the finances left by the implosion of the construction industry.
Simply cutting spending is not enough, its never enough and lumping all likely investment into a €5 Billion LUAS line or Metro [much of which will go to foreign companies] - further disrupting high Street Business is going to destroy centre city businesses just to complete the job.
ONQ.
There was a piece with Tom Parlon of the Construction Industry Federation n the six one news yesterday talking about the Pierse Group seeking Examinership in the High Court.
Parlon referred to the fact that Pierse was owed a lot of money and said that he was aware through his organization's members that Nama was holding up payments on monies due to developers - taking up to six weeks to process claims according to hm.
This was contested by Nama, in a direct message to the newsdesk while on air, stating that there was no matter that did not get dealt with after 1 week.
Parlon refuted their position stating that he knew as a fact that this was not the case immediately following hearing of their assertion from Brian Dobson.
My experience of such things is that we could be talking apples and oranges here - one persons "addressing something" might be opening a file and allocating a number, while another person's "dealing with a claim" might be actually paying out the money.
As a member of the architectural profession, if Parlon's Members are getting paid at all they are doing well, better than most.
But his other comments were more telling.
The construction industry back in 2006 accounted for 24% of GDP an unsustainable level - now its down to 6%, it should be around 12%.
It as seen 300,000 jobs lost at all levels.
Parlon also made the point that government departments have not spent their capital allocations for this year.
In my opinion we need that stimulus badly.
In Parlon's estimation, every Billion spent in Contruction is 50,000 jobs and we all know that despite the comments of others on AAM suggesting that many of these are largely foreign workers sending monies home, they have to live here, monies get spent here, tax and VAT are collected here, and so all boats rise.
Taken together with the artificial depression in indigenous industry caused by the banks not lending, the NAMA creature not paying out payments and Government Departments not spending their budget allocations, this country will destroy itself unless someone takes a big stick to these three groups and gets them moving.
Those reading this Forum with government connections need to impress on the Mandarins running the Banks, NAMA and these under-spending departments that they need to fulfil their obligations to the workforce and start spending on Irish jobs.
No-one is seems to be doing ANYTHING to get this country moving again and repair the hole in the finances left by the implosion of the construction industry.
Simply cutting spending is not enough, its never enough and lumping all likely investment into a €5 Billion LUAS line or Metro [much of which will go to foreign companies] - further disrupting high Street Business is going to destroy centre city businesses just to complete the job.
ONQ.