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IRISH GENERAL ELECTION 2007

Department of the Taoiseach

Thursday May 24, 2007

The policy advisory agency Forfás, reported in January 2007 that employment growth in the Irish economy (click report) continued to increase in 2006, with construction, public administration, education and health accounting for 53,000 of the additional 83,000 jobs in the economy.

During 2006, employment levels supported by the development agencies (Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, Shannon Development, and Údarás na Gaeltachta) increased by 5,927 to 305,062 – 2,913 permanent full-time jobs in foreign-owned companies, and 3,014 in Irish-owned companies.

Tax cuts are the easy part as public sector reform outsourced to the OECD and the Irish public

Bertie Ahern and Jacques Chirac

Soundbite Battle Score - Politicians 100; Journalists 0

The job description of the Irish TD in the Twenty-first Century

Irish Planning Corruption Tribunal 1997-2007: Land Rezoning Reform since 1997 - ZERO

Some questions that voters should ask the politicians

Progressive Democrats on Road to Irrelevance?

McDowell, Ethics Bill, Planning Tribunal and Continuing Corruption

Fianna Fáil launches plan to create 250,000 jobs over next 5 years

Fianna Fáil says Irish economy will grow at annual 4.5% rate over next 5 years

Fine Gael and Labour launch Agreed Agenda on Jobs and Taxes; Say Irish economy too dependent on construction and public sector for jobs growth

PDs will seek to abolish stamp duty for First Time House Buyers; Value Added Tax of 13.5% on new houses to remain unchanged

Economic growth in 2008 is forecast to fall to its lowest rate since 1993 - the year when the Celtic Tiger emerged

Irish House Market: Treading the spectrum between blind faith and calamity howling

China overtakes US in global export rankings in 2006; Ireland slips from 26th to 29th place among leading exporters

The Irish Economy and the Inconvenient Truth

A Banjaxed System of Public Governance where the Buck Stops Nowhere

Low Tax Myth - Income Tax & Stealth Taxes

Future of the Celtic Tiger: Putting a brass knocker on a barn door! - - This is an article from 2006 on focuses on the lack of any reform to put the temporary prosperity on a firmer footing.

Growth Miracles: China and 10 other countries had the best 25 year performances of export-driven high economic growth; Challenge for Ireland to retune Celtic Tiger as exports falter