{"id":13837,"date":"2024-03-24T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/ireland-opens-its-arms-to-tech-titans-yet-shuts-its-eyes-to-failing-public-services-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T11:37:17","slug":"ireland-opens-its-arms-to-tech-titans-yet-shuts-its-eyes-to-failing-public-services-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/ireland-opens-its-arms-to-tech-titans-yet-shuts-its-eyes-to-failing-public-services-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland opens its arms to tech titans, yet shuts its eyes to failing public services | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist<\/p>\n

In 1956, a chap named TK \u201cKen\u201d Whitaker<\/a>, an Irish civil servant who had trained as an economist, was appointed permanent secretary of the finance department in Dublin at the relatively young age of 39. From his vantage point at the top of his country\u2019s treasury, the view was bleak. The Irish republic was, economically and socially, in deep trouble. It had no natural resources, very little industry and was mired in a deep depression. Inflation and unemployment were high. Ireland\u2019s main export was its young people, who were fleeing in thousands every year, seeking work and better lives elsewhere. The proud dream of Irish independence had produced a poor, priest-ridden statelet on the brink of failure.<\/p>\n

Whitaker immediately put together a team of younger officials who did a critical analysis of the country\u2019s economic failings and came up with a set of policies for rescuing it. The resulting report, entitled First Programme for Economic Expansion, was published in November 1958, and after Se\u00e1n Lemass<\/a> was elected taoiseach (prime minister) in 1959, it became Ireland\u2019s strategy for survival.<\/p>\n

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\nTax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist
\nIn 1956, a chap named TK \u201cKen\u201d Whitaker, an Irish civil servant who had trained as an economist, was appointed permanent secretary of the finance department in Dublin at the relatively young age of 39. From his vantage point at the top of his country\u2019s treasury, the view was bleak. The Irish republic was, economically and socially, in deep trouble. It had no natural resources, very little industry and was mired in a deep depression. Inflation and unemployment were high. Ireland\u2019s main export was its young people, who were fleeing in thousands every year, seeking work and better lives elsewhere. The proud dream of Irish independence had produced a poor, priest-ridden statelet on the brink of failure.
\nWhitaker immediately put together a team of younger officials who did a critical analysis of the country\u2019s economic failings and came up with a set of policies for rescuing it. The resulting report, entitled First Programme for Economic Expansion, was published in November 1958, and after Se\u00e1n Lemass was elected taoiseach (prime minister) in 1959, it became Ireland\u2019s strategy for survival. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist In 1956, a chap named TK \u201cKen\u201d Whitaker, an Irish civil servant who had trained as an economist, was appointed permanent secretary of the finance department in Dublin at the relatively young age of 39. From …<\/p>\n

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