LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Do World Leaders salaries reveal cultural attitudes to Civic Society?

Thursday the 18th of December 2008

Singapore: Lee Hsien Loong €1.9m
Hong Kong: Donald Tsang €390,000
Ireland: Brian Cowen €314,000
US: George Bush €301,000
Japan: Taro Aso €267,000
France: Nicolas Sarkozy €243,000
Germany: Angela Merkel €239,000
United Kingdom: Gordon Brown €212,000
Canada: Stephen Harper €171,000
Australia: Kevin Rudd €166,000
New Zealand: John Key €163,000
Russia: Vladimir Putin €60,000
 
The problem in Ireland is not insufficient taxes but a State Sector unable to control their own pay and spending. Any increase in taxes will take funds out of the economy and reduce competitiveness, economic growth and employment growth. Ireland is a very small country and the cost of the state sector must reflect that in order for Ireland to remain competitive and create jobs.