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Countries that benefit from Irish emigrants should pay Ireland a tax (IrishCentral)
Foreign countries that benefit from Irish emigration should pay the State in return, according to one Irish Jesuit priest.
Fr Micheál Mac Gréil SJ made the comments when he addressed the St Patrick’s Day pilgrimage on Máméan in Connemara’s Maamturk mountains on Saturday, reports the Irish Times.
“When it costs the State an average of €85,000 to educate people to third-level, it is time that host countries paid a tax in return for the benefits accruing,” he said.
He said that the current trends in Irish emigration was symptomatic of a free movement of labor which has become an “international scandal”.
Countries such as Ireland will “never develop” while there is a “push-pull” factor attracting younger generations to stronger economies.
“The push is the crisis at home, the pull is the opportunity abroad,” Fr Mac Gréil said.
Fr Mac Gréil, former professor of sociology at NUI Maynooth described the Irish emigrants as “great ambassadors for Ireland”.
“But the reality is that it is a great loss for the country, and it would be better for young Ireland to be on the dole – and be creative – than to be emigrating,” he said.
An Irish Times survey published over the weekend showed that 59 percent of emigrants left by choice while 41 percent said they were forced to leave.
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Economical and Convenient Apartments in San Diego
Anyone who is thinking of starting an apartment rental business needs to offer units that are both economical and convenient. Apartments are economical when they offer different programs for paying rent, and they are convenient when they are located near facilities such as stores, hospitals and schools.
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The Nestor and North Park neighborhoods are other good examples of places where you could start your apartment rental business.
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Small Business Success Story: Yevgeniya Lepskaya School of Music
Can you tell me more about yourself? I was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to the United States when I was 19 years old. I received a full scholarship to Roosevelt University Musical College in Chicago. I graduated in three years, with honors, from the Chicago Musical college with a Bachelors degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. I then attended Northern Illinois University for graduate school on a full scholarship, and received my Master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy in 1999. What made you decide to start your business? I have been teaching music all my life. While I was a student at Roosevelt, I began teaching a few people on the side. Word began to spread of my teachings, and the number of students I had kept growing. Six years ago, I got my own space and started my teaching business. What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome? The biggest challenge that I had to overcome was coming to the United States. I did have full scholarships to Roosevelt, but I only had $200 in my pocket.
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Irish house prices even lower than reported – new database will include house sold for cash (IrishCentral)
The effect of the banking collapse on the Irish property market is finally coming into focus – and thanks to a new database, the public will learn just how much local properties have been selling for.
Punters who have long suspected that Irish house prices are even lower than reported will be able to satisfy their curiosity when the true prices are unveiled within the coming months.
The new property database, due to go online by June, will provide the date of the sales and the final selling price on all properties sold since January 2010 and the effort is being hailed as an attempt by the Irish government to revive the collapsed property market.
Until now the best estimates have been produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) which compile their lists based on the mortgages taken out – but these statistics do not include cash sales.
To that end, the Irish public has had to rely solely on the word of estate agents and property websites, both notoriously subjective appraisers.
Now the new organization, titled the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA), will obtain the information on the final selling price of houses directly from the Revenue department, the most exacting appraisers on record.
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