Conall Ó Móráin Sunday Business Show Ireland Post Troika – What lies ahead ?
Economist Irving Fisher October 1929, three days before the stock market crash
A Decca Records executive band’s manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007
Let us Imagine
Imagine we lived in a positive Ireland
Not in a deluded Ireland SCOREBOARD IRELAND 101 NEW ZEALAND 3
A realistic Ireland Unemployment 14% Was 4.5% = FULL employement
Where is the opposing view?
Imagine no ‘ MoanLine ’ …
Imagine if we just did things differently
Imagine if we had a real culture of enterprise?
I said a real culture of enterprise – not power apes
No! - Imagine we had a true culture of enterprise
Let’s talk SMALL government for a small nation
Imagine discussions on ‘small government’ not involving Michael Graham
And not the All American - Joe the Plumber
• 2,200,000 52 senior managers including directors employees • € 360 billion turnover
Bigger than Ireland Inc. 52 Senior Managers
Recognise we can and do things differently
Some random suggestions
The Dept. of Defence budget - € 890m
It’s not all savings
Costa Rica • Population 4.5 million • Abolished its army in 1949. • Only Latin American democracy since 1950 or earlier. • Consistently among top Latin American countries in Human Development Index ranked 62nd in the world in 2012.
Let’s talk sweat
Entrepreneurs love a bit of sweat
Imagine sweating the national assets
Imagine hospitals on double shifts and working weekends
Imagine school building designed as community centres
Imagine a national fleet of school buses unblocking our roads
Imagine school day starts earlier or later
Imagine (say) UCD doubling up • Not • Why not 2 semesters of 12 4 semesters of 12 weeks each weeks each teaching just 25,000 teaching 50,000 students students
Olympic swimming pool
Brand new theatre (cinema as well)
Debating chamber
Belfield Bowl
Many, many lecture theatres
38 Third Level Institutions
Doctors, lawyers may not like it? The Troika would!
As would quite a few more people…
Imagine car tax paid at the fuel pump
Give people real ‘frontline’ work to do
UN's Top 50 2012 e-Government Readiness Index • Rank Country Index 1 South Korea 0.9283 • • 2 Netherlands 0.9125 3 United Kingdom 0.8960 • • 4 Denmark 0.8889 • 5 United States 0.8687 6 France 0.8635 • • 7 Sweden 0.8599 8 Norway 0.8593 • • 9 Finland 0.8505 28 Lithuania 0.7333 • • 29 Croatia 0.7328 30 Hungary 0.7208 • • 31 Italy 0.7190 • 32 Portugal 0.7165 33 Ireland 0.7194 • 34 Malta 0.7131 • • 35 Bahrain 0.6946 • 36 Greece 0.6872 37 Kazakhstan 0.6844 •
Imagine car insurance paid at the fuel pump
Imagine some of our finest entrepreneurs could get back to work
Imagine TV licence paid via Sky or UPC
Give this man his life back
Imagine RTE sold its D4 campus to fill pension hole
Can Gerry Robinson fix the NHS?
Imagine we had regulation
Imagine if we had regulation
Imagine we had regulation • PRIORY HALL
IFSX
Imagine State salaries were realistic Joe Higgins TD Pres. Obama € 254,699 € 307,000 plus expenses (including plus expenses Socialist Party Leader’s allowance )
Income • Make it – take it • Don’t make – don’t take it • Small government please • BUT recognise the nuance
Who doesn’t love us…
A frightening statistic
We are but the flea on…
What could happen
This is the real action
Nuttall Report
Employee participation • Higher GROWTH • Higher RETENTION • Lower ABSENTEEISM • No cost to the Exchequer • UK government investing £50 million a year
Airy fairy socialism ?
One of Spain’s largest enterprises
Worldwide professional services
A culture change in State owned enterprises
Imagine an Irish enterprise that needed a culture change…
Not just the State sector
A (partial) Irish solution to an Irish problem..
ICOS • There are >200 agri-retail stores in operation in Ireland. • Formed in 1906 , Templecrone Agricultural Co- operative Society is a retail co-op chain based in Co. Donegal with annual sales of € 15m. • Our 'cousins' in the Plunkett Foundation have helped develop >250 community-based shops and co-operative pubs across the UK .
Imagine farmers selling their own meat?
Put the Troika behind us
Conall Ó Móráin Sunday Business Show Ireland Post Troika – What lies ahead GREAT THINGS
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