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thunders2000
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Hi,
A colleague of mine mentioned to me that there was an article in the press lately talking about the high proportion of public sector tenders being awarded to overseas companies. He can't remember where he read it and I cannot find it online. Would love to see it if someone could give me a link.
It basically compares, on a country by country basis, the proportion of contracts awarded to overseas companies. Ireland it appears is sending more work overseas than others - by a factor of 4 I'm told.
This bothers me a lot because my company cannot pick up work overseas as it always goes to a local player. Here at home, we have lost 2 big contracts to foreign competition. 20 people laid off as a result. More may follow. All the manufacturing will be done abroad and the product then imported. In one contract we were 2% off on price and in the other we hadn't properly signed a declaration.
My cousin works in construction (architect). Incredibly, the same is happening there and there is no effort whatsoever in Irish Government bodies keeping work at home. Work is going to US and European companies. This in turn is giving the overseas competition a track record in Ireland and further contracts are going overseas while the Irish architects can only look on and eventually sign on.
When I hear all of this, I feel very sad - feel betrayed by my own people really. I don't know how to stop it happening, don't know why no one has brought it up in the Dail. Can't believe how Fine Gael haven't picked up on it.
We all have to pull our weight to get out of the mess we're in. Everyone in my company has taken substantial pay cuts, about 25% on average. I was never into the public private sector debate until this issue started needling me.
A colleague of mine mentioned to me that there was an article in the press lately talking about the high proportion of public sector tenders being awarded to overseas companies. He can't remember where he read it and I cannot find it online. Would love to see it if someone could give me a link.
It basically compares, on a country by country basis, the proportion of contracts awarded to overseas companies. Ireland it appears is sending more work overseas than others - by a factor of 4 I'm told.
This bothers me a lot because my company cannot pick up work overseas as it always goes to a local player. Here at home, we have lost 2 big contracts to foreign competition. 20 people laid off as a result. More may follow. All the manufacturing will be done abroad and the product then imported. In one contract we were 2% off on price and in the other we hadn't properly signed a declaration.
My cousin works in construction (architect). Incredibly, the same is happening there and there is no effort whatsoever in Irish Government bodies keeping work at home. Work is going to US and European companies. This in turn is giving the overseas competition a track record in Ireland and further contracts are going overseas while the Irish architects can only look on and eventually sign on.
When I hear all of this, I feel very sad - feel betrayed by my own people really. I don't know how to stop it happening, don't know why no one has brought it up in the Dail. Can't believe how Fine Gael haven't picked up on it.
We all have to pull our weight to get out of the mess we're in. Everyone in my company has taken substantial pay cuts, about 25% on average. I was never into the public private sector debate until this issue started needling me.