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0 pointsmugsie7y ago0 comments

> Ireland is a leech.

Eh, a leech that took the brunt of the real estate crunch for the EU? A leech would have let the German banks fold instead of paying bond holders.

> Ireland is making a mockery of GDPR, slow walking investigations while paying lip service to GDPR.

Slow walking is pushing it - the agreement to allow home countries be the enforcement authority put a massive burden on a really small country and its civil service. Ireland's population is 4.7 (about 1/2 that of London on its own). Our DPC offices are overwhelmed by the number of requests, and hiring people to deal with the uptick is taking time. We also have a lot of the majorly complex GDPR cases, as we have FB, GOOG, MSFT, etc, along with a ... interesting ... relationship with the Catholic Church, which has ... views ... on what the GDPR means for them.

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drtz7y ago

Isn't Ireland is home to these business because they have lower corporate taxes than the rest of the EU? Lower taxes likely make it harder to fund the regulatory agencies that should oversee these companies, which were intentionally courted to Ireland with lower taxes.

I don't disagree with you, but it seems to be largely a problem of Ireland's own making.

mugsieOP7y ago

Sure, that is definitely part of it, but without those companies, our income tax take would be lower, so we are probably in a net positive.