tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891046308852041295.post4381691251190296450..comments2023-09-06T06:30:27.720+01:00Comments on SEO Ireland: Reacting to the Recession- VC for Limerick (& Others)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06142914827010036758noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891046308852041295.post-84213455195046111192009-02-05T06:47:00.000+00:002009-02-05T06:47:00.000+00:00I could not agree more. I applaud Everts Greenhous...I could not agree more. I applaud Everts Greenhouse Limerick, free from the fetters of the ridiculously unenterprising bureaucracy of 'Enterprise' Ireland. Doesn't deserve the name.<BR/><BR/>I have to commend our own(Kerry)Enterprise Board and a few other County Enterprise Boards that I have heard of though. It does depend on the individual running the show in each county, but when a good one is in there, they can do wonders. I say redistribute the money from Enterprise Ireland to the local boards. Equally I am familiar with some of the Leader or Partnership groups, again depends who is running them. I find that many of them are run by people from self-employed families who know what it is to be an entrepreneur, whereas some of those I have met in EI are life sentence civil servants. Yes EI and FAS hold the cash. Criminal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891046308852041295.post-79453328847747714582009-02-04T23:14:00.000+00:002009-02-04T23:14:00.000+00:00Firstly, thanks for the link to my blog. Glad it i...Firstly, thanks for the link to my blog. Glad it inspired you.<BR/><BR/>There was a few things that caught my eye in your blog, and I agree with everything you said ( + interesting statistics there about incubators) <BR/><BR/> <I>"The government and civil servants will not and cannot solve innovation, invention and enterprise growth. Private sector businesses can and need this funding."</I> <BR/><BR/>Yes, I completely agree. Intrapreneurship was shown, along with skills and innovation, many years ago when a civil servant had an idea regarding the building of what is today the International Financial Services Trading Centre, built an marshy bog not fit for walking on, is now one of the biggest financial centres in the world.<BR/><BR/>But the saddening thing is that was the spirit of a raging department many years ago, all willing ot try new ideas, but then the bosses gave themselves pay rises and seperated the rich people from the poor and the public servants stopped making ideas and producing high innovation. And now, at a time when thats what we need, we havent got the money for it, so we're taxing their wages.<BR/><BR/><I>This funding would create a safe haven for banks to invest in and for the agencies to deliver grants and other inestments. €1 billion invested in Limerick and Cork, say, could help create up to 2,000 companies with 5 employees. That would remove 10,000 people from the dole."</I><BR/><BR/>I agree completely. That and the fact we're paying interest on a load of loans, yet we have €80 billion euro sitting there that wont be touched for many more years. The European Commission are going to inject a 'small but effective' sum of money into the now disadvantaged region that was Limerick. upto 5,000 jobs down the tube because of an illegal government handshake from Poland. <BR/><BR/>It's time Ireland started playing dirty. The best way to win the war on the economy is to be innovative adaptable and contingent. We're gonna get to get back in the game. Pension taxes aren't going to fix the problems forever.NevFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17362093244449703017noreply@blogger.com