I know the Enterprise Ireland system quite well and generally don't bother applying for grants because a) being East of the Shannon there's very little available and b) the checks and paperwork is considerable (as it should be).
If you are a manufacturing export company in Ireland you get 0% grant aid for capital investment in machinery. In Northern Ireland you get 50%.
If there is any abuse of the EI grants system it takes place in Universities where professors and medical doctors get large grants to develop Intellectual Property which won't be commercialised in Ireland but will give tax free IP royalties to the University and academics who developed it.
Purple .
{Independent} , seems only to apply only if suits one side of discussion?
Lost the plot.
I hear your 40% , yet circa 100,000 + have moved into employment from dole . I am thinking most didn,t get a 40% uplift but retrieved their pride .
Having been in Welfare Position a few times , it really , really irks me to read some of the posts.
I fully accept we have some leg-lifters but in the scheme of things not too many.
The old saying {walk in their shoes } etc comes to mind.
Maybe if they really are feeling like suckers they might like to swop places with the 80% that have it so good!! don't think so though...By the way, as there are 2 million income tax payers but only the top 20% of them make any meaningful net contribution to the exchequer this thread should be titled
"The four hundred thousand suckers who are paying for bailout have taken enough"
Why do you think the other 80% have it so good?Maybe if they really are feeling like suckers they might like to swop places with the 80% that have it so good!! don't think so though...
Great post Leper. If everyone was 100% tax compliant in this country we would have a very equal society. There are plenty people scamming off the state and another group to be added to the list are those "Serial Entrepreneurs" who get grants from Enterprise Ireland.
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