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Ireland’s foreign investment community. Martin and the IDA are entitled to a balanced and fair representation of the facts surrounding Brexit, taxation, and all other topics relating to investment in Ireland. Your creation of a “Green Jersey Agenda” page on June 1st and consistent editing of the Corporate Haven site to include a picture of Ireland would seem only add to my suspicions on your motivations. I have declared my interests here, what are yours? On Brexit, there are a variety of sources noting the significant amount of investments that have come to Ireland since the referendum. The Irish Times has reported on many of the individual announcements including that of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, S&P and others. The Guardian noting Ireland’s popularity with UK-based FS entities in their article “Dublin is Streets Ahead of EU Rivals as City Firms Plan for Brexit Relocation.” You have refused to engage with these sources, choosing instead to pursue a purely negative narrative of Martin and IDA’s work in this area. Your characterisation of Brexit as “something which has not been a success for Martin” represents a personalisation of an issue that affects almost every business in Ireland. It is widely understood and reported that Brexit was not the desired outcome of the Irish Government or any of its Agencies. There is no such thing as a “successful” Brexit for Martin, or the IDA. Winning investment is a competitive business, and IDA will continue to fight to win jobs for Ireland throughout any political changes in other countries. On TCJA, your portrayal of Martin’s comments as “relaxed” are, once again, without context and point towards a bias and a personal agenda. To use your own phrase, this is not what WP is about. Martin and IDA Ireland are never complacent or “relaxed” about investment. Ireland has enjoyed considerable success in winning foreign investment in recent years owing to a combination of factors including talent, taxation, track record and a stable policy environment. This is a recorded, readily available fact that is worthy of inclusion in any future edits.
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Ireland's non-tax competitiveness is also a concern, particularly in light of TCJA (which again, Martin has noted publically, and which there are the key GCI scores). Very happy to discuss if you think something is unrepresentative but would be sad to have this article fall back into a "brochure". Am going to re-post this to the Talk page of Martin's article which is the suitable place for this discussion.
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Ireland since Brexit. Perhaps @jytdog could give a more impartial view on this and inform the thread as to what constitutes proper Wiki use? I am also puzzled by how my comments can be construed as being “personalised” when you continue to post under an anonymous handle. Perhaps if you revealed your own name and your own employer then the viewers of the pages that you are creating and editing could get a better sense of your own agenda. You might also share with us why so many of these pages would seem to follow a particular agenda against Ireland. --
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