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IRISH TECHNOLOGY COMPANY IT Alliance Group is to create 75 jobs over the next year, it was announced today.
The announcement was made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the firm’s new global headquarters in Park West, Dublin. The €2 million investment that will create the jobs is supported by Enterprise Ireland.
IT Alliance Group started in a two-person office in Dublin in 1997 and now employs over 400 people worldwide providing a service to customers including Microsoft, IMB, BT and Dell.
It specialises in IT project and service management, testing, infrastructure technologies and resource management.
Speaking at the opening of the headquarters today, the Taoiseach said he sees “no reason why Irish companies cannot create strong, dominant technology brands that compete internationally over the next decade, especially those in the emerging cloud sector.”
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I am not from here but it is really sad to see this country being sold off bit by bit. It was a different place 10 years ago.
A semi-private company gets bought by a private company and you call it ‘the country being sold off bit by bit’? No pal, it’s competition and it’s capitalism.
Your article has ‘Rabbittee says……’
Keep adding vowels to his name. e e e e e e e and maybe he will go over the edge of the cliff. And then we will all live happily ever after. In British owned Ireland.
I hope the employees are quaking in their boots. They’ve had it sewn up for years.
You are absolutely right Murtaza, it is really sad to think of how different Ireland was a few short years ago. God knows what it will look like in another 10.
It’s not a semi private company, it’s a semi state company, which means it’s owned by the state on behalf of the citizens of Ireland. That ain’t private!
Murtaza
The most inefficient companies within the State are those that operate under the dead arm of……….the State!
Stupid fu€king comment. Look at the Salary the CEO of British gas got last year and compare it to the avg earnings in BGE. This can only mean bigger prices for gas customers in a unregulated market and more that likely another couple hundred people in the social welfare system next year.
Also, Tim, it’s the back door for water privatization too. The ordinary UK citizens are being massively robbed by.Centrica and it’s like minded buddies. This is a crime.
No Darren its called criminal activity ,the boys in leinster house are selling of state assets to pay for bust banks and bondholders so as that they can keep their perks and pay for the shiny shoe boys and girls,
You obviously know nothing about Centrica & their business in the UK.They are actually a Spanish company & they rob their customers blind in the UK,under their banner British Gas.And where is the competition coming from???
Not like the Irish people will see a cent of the profits regardless of semi state owned and more than likely propped up by tax payer money
Murtaza – it’s the Irish way, unfortunately.
Centrica plc is a British multinational utility company headquartered in Windsor, Berkshire.
“Rob their customers” what the tin-hat-fcuk are you talking about? Literally steal? Or “I’m 12 and I hate everything because YouTube told me to”
Capitalism…………HELL NO…….we were ordered to sell it ……..and was it not “”the rabbitt” idea
HA HA …. James Connellys(R.I.P.) workers party are now being called capitalist……..
Please read some of what you post,,,,, it’s more than just funny it’s sad
It sure is Murtaza. 10 years ago we were swanning around the world, pretending we had money, pretending we knew what we were doing, telling other countries how to run their economy, based on ours. Our ‘entrepreneur’ developers were buying up properties in London, Dubai, New York & anywhere else they could pay over the odds, just to show the world how great they & we were. If our government had a problem, it was solved by throwing money at it, and then we applauded & encouraged them by voting them time & again.
Today is reality, hopefully with this new consortium coming in, their competitors might follow and hopefully there might be some REAL competition in the energy sector here.
And that is the problem. It is capitalism unfettered.
English prices then yay!
Oh wait….
Well done Pat you got your 30 pieces of silver…
Going once, going twice, Ireland is definitely on the market today…… No more bids SOLD to the guy on phone from overseas
Meeting tomorrow to new shareholders
1we will cut cost
2new restructure already in place(move assets and down grade infrasture)
3we will try to increase dividend by 6% to loyal overseas investors(makes ireland look good for foreign investors,helps local economy, and much much more)
5 raise directors salaries cause we lucky to have them on board
6 the big one……. Wait six months as we milk it then ask “”push over Enda”" can we get some government money to bail us and keep company going so the poor irish people can have gas…….. After it approved then…… Split shares and also issue more cause everyone will want them as govt will help…….. Wail till they go up to double then directors will offload
Is it the end ….god no …….. Govt buys back and has to invest billions as no reinvestment was made during this period
Then my sons and daughters can pay for it all over again
By the way……..HAPPY CHRISTMAS
The Bord Gais unions could do the country a great service and strike until the government puts the selling of this state asset to a referendum.
Let the citizens decide the future of the nation’s infrastructure which we own.
Mathew,
The English actually pay less for their energy then Ireland, seems people like yourself just think they pay more due to the way the UK media bitch and moan about energy prices.
Don’t believe me? The read this data from yesterday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25200808
But don’t let facts get in the way of you trying to make a smart comment.
Isn’t that what my comment says?
Why don’t you bite my bell end. You don’t have to read it just avert your eyes and get a life for yourself.
Sure we just need to sell off another 120 State assets for about a billion each and we’ll have paid for the bailout!
This is a great first step. ESB next? Phoenix Park? The entire western seaboard?
Thanks Bertie.
Please John!
This is a family website.
Please refrain from using the “B” word!
No we’d probably just about cover tds wages expenses and pensions with that
Represents confidence in Ireland??? Represents a Smash and Grab raid more like. Typical short sightedness by an Irish government.
And a Labour minister especially. They should hang their heads in shame; that party has NO principles left!
1.2 billion and an undisclosed amount of brown envelopes.
Those boys use union jack envelopes! they are very patriotic over on that side of the Irish sea.
Niall – I wonder what colour the Norwegians used when practically stole our oil fields. I can’t say I blame them though they only did what’s best for their people, unlike our shower of Muppets at the time.
What does that even mean?
Dumb.
Well done. Sell public property to private hands and private debt to public hands.
Deregulation and privatization of state assets generate huge profits for investors and eat away at jobs whilst eventually drive up the price of electricity,gas and dare I say it WATER.
Our government are now in the cycle of asset stripping that occurred in West Africa and South America twenty years ago.
Our political establishment fail again.
Our political establishment fail again.”
– Not at all – this is what they are supposed to do to satisfy their employers- and their friends – the Vulture capitalists .
all is going according to plan – and much of the population think the government is doing a ‘ fine job – according to latest polls .
Indeed – for what died the sons of Roisin ??
They promised not to sell off infrastructure…. Just the customer supply side.
Yet the Bord Gais power generation facilities are being sold off too…. Including their renewable power generation!
The plan was to retain the network infrastructure and this they have done. The state already owns a heap of generation capacity through the ESB. No reason why the Bord Gais generation side couldn’t be sold.
IRELAND FOR SALE❗️
I’ll keep looking on Daft
Crap! Given the profiteering and fleecing of UK consumers by Centrica and co we can expect prices to rise steadily – those share holders demand high dividends
Am I wrong?
Didn’t Pat Rabbitte and his crowd sell us out to England 100 years ago,,,,,,OOHH….. It’s an anniversary present
More asset stripping with the full obedience of our invertibrate government. The same type of people whos gambling debts we’re covering are going to make another killing with this.
Wasn’t that long ago we were told Bord Gais would never be sold, just like we’re being told about Irish water now.
They’re not fitting meters to conserve water y’know….
Werejammin
Ai that Sinn Fein policy your stating or is it just the normal Marxist tripe that you spout ?
AH rogers again any body need a person tuned in to revenue ,put on a spit and you will always find another irish man to turn him,especially the ones in FG .
I HOPE THIS DOES NOT MEAN DEARER GAS PRICES. I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO JOG TO GET HOT
Morm, looks like you could do with a bit of jogging!
I’m wondering if the energy regulator will have anything to say apart from happily signing off on massive price increases year in year out and no one in the media asking him why?
Europe awaits the traitors who sold the family silver dirt bags one and all Labour hold your heads in shame.
Bye bye another profitable, successful Irish company!!
Hello another foreign company laughing all the way to the bank!!
…. Remember Vodafone’s takeover of Eircell? for years they dominated the mobile market with expensive tariffs after they took over Eircell having more revenue per head in Ireland than any Vodafone division in Europe. Ireland Inc. post bailout is for sale and not to the benefit of our people or our economy!
So much for Labour Party Socialism!
You can add the Eircom fiasco to that line-up Ronan! Absolute disgrace!
that’s exactly right @Rufus Hound! Only this time I will say that they learnt not to sell the network division of Bord Gáis this time unlike what they did with eircom!
BG Energy (Retail) is still a totally unnecessary sell off! They expanded into Northern Ireland (Fermus Energy) which provided new growth opportunities and potential income for the State and this is now being sold off too as well as wind farms and a power plant… as you say, an absolute disgrace!
Vodafone mobile prices in Australia compared to here would actually blow your mind. $49 a month for $250 credit and I would ring home on my mobile and never need credit before the month was up. Oh and a free iPhone. If you did it here it would cost you hundreds a month
In 2008 the boss of Centrica told customers to wear 2 jumpers and had no sympathy for people who go into fuel poverty http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2435874/Centrica-boss-tells-customers-wear-two-jumpers-this-winter.html This just shows the mindset of our new gas overlords.
Any guesses that there’s a board seat waiting for Pat when he “retires” after the next election?
Summer sale, in winter when prices should be high. But what is it with Eamon Gilmore and Labour selling off our natural resources. And the England which is worse. We hace sweet Fook all left to give away. Fooken gop Shts
What natural resources were sold? The wind?
You’re right reg, our natural resources aren’t being sold. They’ve been given away for free.
Why give our wind to England, just to buy it back at a cost??. Keep our own wind and sell cheaper electricity??? No that’s just stupid Irish talk, give it to England and buy it back for a lot more makes more sense.
Mmmmm. Centrica have a reputation of running a lean and mean ship so if I was an employee of bord gas I would be very worried ce trica will come in review what it can synergies withits uk operations and then cut the numbers , the irish idea that we need 250 people to run a power station is well off the norm . Let’s hope,they retain the full workforce and not bring over workers from uk . Further they were one of the first to raise gas prices until,the uk government slowed them down , I don’t see spineless Enda doing anything for the ordinary man . Get some solar hearing in and start to think of going back to oil . From news abroad Libya and Iran will be fully back in the oil supply side within 6 mths and we may well have a glut and drop in prices around mid year before winter fuel hikes . Thanks troika for cutting the arse out of the country
I dont know the full ins and outs of how the oil and gas prospects have been sold but I would hope that the government have the balls to hold onto that and not jist make a quick buck like the clowns did in the 80′s for the mayo gas site!!
Ye ha now lets give it to the bondholders yeaaaa:-)
Flogging off state assets for a pittance (BG spent almost half this price building a single state-of-the-art gas power station alone) to enrich some vulture capitalists and get another tick from the troika for being best boy in the class. They’ll spin some shite about using the money for job creation (as they get rid of an ideal vehicle for job creation) and then it’ll be just used to pay a few days interest of the bank debt they’ve helped land on us. Shameful, even by their standards
That’s great, I pay big money for a huge bag of apples and have to keep the rotten ones too – now those are the labour laws I’m talking about – protecting the wasters even in times of privatisation – got to love it, NOT
Oh my god you’d swear Bord Gais was a a family air loom by some people. We all knew this was going to happen it’s sale will go towards better things… well I hope it does !
What’s an “air loom”.
Is it what we weave the wind on?
Classic!
Ha ! Iv never witnessed heirloom spelt air loom before :-) excellent stuff
Why sell it ? British gas will raise prices to levels where people can’t afford it. Look what they’ve done in Britain. Sell our gas, sell our oil, sell our homes, sell everything. Irish people will be borrowed and renters on their own land.
Ah, but the people selling it *can* afford it, and thanks to their huge pensions they always will. That’s all that matters.
I’d feel less annoyed by this if I honestly believed Centrica was going to mean competition and capitalism in the energy sector, but it’s not. As soon as revenues fail to meet projections or investment is required, the state will subsidise them (see also: toll roads), and whenever their latest hikes provoke outrage the then-government will b;ame whatever binding agreements the current government made.
so that’s gas, water, and telecoms all sold to companies who put their shareholders first, quality and value last.. what flag is flying above Leinster house? certainly doesn’t feel like a tri colour any more
Watch yer fuel bills shoot up faster than a junkie on the luas!
LIARS, TRAITORS, GANGSTERS, DESPICABLE EXCUSES FOR HUMAN BEINGS. THEY’VE SOLD THEIR SOULS AND SOLD US DOWN THE RIVER.
Hopefully the ESB will be next, although the chances of anybody buying a company where the workers are amongst the highest paid in Europe is slim and none.
and how will that benefit the Irish economy, all the savings will be shipped abroad. You can pick some one in Europe or America at random and send a cheque if you want.
Niall, you uneducated fool.
Bunch of short sighted idiots! Another piece of Irish people’s lives and futures put into stranger’s hands.
Sell off Leinster House and all the employees that ‘claim’ to work there – good price!
If on sells the cow they have to buy milk and the price of milk will increase wait and see, then it will be too late .
Another Eircom in the making. Strip the company bare of all it’s decent assets & just leave the crap!
PLEDGED????LIARS!They have proven they cannot be trusted!
This news story was reported by me on previous feature -
This is a disgrace
Watching Pat Rabitte say this should reduce prices made my blood boil. Like any private company they will charge what the market will bare so why in Christ’s name would they lower prices? Next he’ll be on talking through his arse about spending this cash on job creation… Heard that one before.
Sell off Leinster House and all its employees that claim to work there!
oil central heating will soon be the cheaper option. Disgraceful.
Should have sold rte and several other quangos instead
50% of the sale to go to infrastructure and jobs, the other half to go to Europe or the banks……..we should keep the lot and create jobs for the unemployed and it will reduce the Social Welfare Costs and put people back to work.
‘like in the game monopoly when you have to sell your assets’
it normally means for you;
-GAME OVER-
So for the next bailout what are we going to sell off? Surely a simi-state company is profitable and return a decent enough amount each year? Privatising such a big company with €€€€ rolling in the buyers eyes ain’t good for the poor consumer
7% yield last year and they have giving it Away .what other sweeteners will they give the purchaser on top.
Stop gas imports for a few years maybe.
USA gas prices are a third of what they are here.
Well done Enda :)
Bord gais pays a dividend to the exchequer annually..what multiple of the dividend is the sale price?
Is the sale good value for the seller (us)? or the buyer?
Capitalism is a beautiful thing :)
Sad times
Like everybody does at Christmas to get a few bob.. Sell there assets, good job lads
From Wikipedia on “Centrica”:
Greenwash
British Gas was accused of greenwashing in the advertising of its Zero Carbon tariff in 2008 after the Advertising Standards Association upheld a complaint about the ‘greenest domestic tariff’ claim.[31]
Following this adjudication, British Gas signed up to Ofgem’s Green Supply Guidelines which aim to give an objective interpretation of ‘green tariffs’ and raise the standard of industry products. British Gas supported the stipulation that a green tariff must deliver an additional environmental benefit and not simply charge a premium for renewable electricity that would have been generated anyway under the Renewables Obligation. The company continues to offer Zero Carbon which is based on this principle of additionality.
Customer complaint response:
In July 2011, British Gas was fined £2.5m by the energy regulator Ofgem for failing to deal properly with customer complaints.[32] After a year-long investigation into the British Gas, Ofgem found it had breached regulations on how energy companies should handle disputes. Ofgem found that British Gas failed to re-open complaints from customers who indicated they felt the matter was not resolved adequately, failed to provide sufficient information to complainants about the energy ombudsman service, and failed to deal properly with complaints from micro-businesses because it had not implement the necessary processes and practices.[32]
A spokesperson for British Gas said the company felt that finding it in breach of rules for failing to provide adequate information to consumers about the energy ombudsman was “disproportionate to the mistake”.[32]
British Gas Business was fined £1m in July after Ofgem’s investigation found the company had misreported the amount of electricity supplied under the British government’s renewables obligation.[32] British Gas claims it spotted the problem – it said an over-reporting of the amount of renewable energy it was supplying caused by human error – and notified the regulator
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