What is a planned economy? Communism? I think we can see that was not successful as couldn't feed its own people. The Workers Party get a few thousands votes in our general elections which shows how much support they don't have.
For anyone to suggest Ireland would be a better place without multinationals is insanity. Its not worthy of debate.
Interesting debate on Primetime last night with both sides twisting the facts. Seems the Shell to Sea people want the Terminal somewhere else but in their area - even preferred to have on the shore or in shallow water off the coast. Seemed a contradiction as surely this would not be good is a scenic area?
Both sides calimed to know that the locals favoured. Shell to sea claimed that local communities must be allowed to decide what gets built in their area. To follow this logic would mean nothing built in this country due to so many nimbys. Shell were consulting with locals to change the pipe route which seems to be an admission that maybe not the best route currently. Shell also said was 2 million miles of pipes overland in North America so its surprising with so many they not exploding on a weekly basis.
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