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HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE confirmed one further death of a patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and 136 new confirmed cases of the disease in Ireland.
The number of people in this country with the coronavirus who have died now stands at 1,776 and there have been 27,676 confirmed cases.
Of the new cases notified today, 11 are determined as being the result of community transmission.
51 of cases are in Dublin, 24 in Kildare, 12 in Kilkenny, 11 in Tipperary, 7 in Cork, 6 in Limerick, 6 in Wexford 5 in Meath and the remaining 14 cases are in Carlow, Cavan, Donegal. Galway, Mayo, Offaly, Roscommon, Waterford and Wicklow.
Acting chief medical officer Dr. Ronan Glynn has said the core message to people is to “limit your social networks”.
“Stick to a limit of 6 people from no more than 3 households indoors, and 15 people outdoors. Risk assess your environment and do not stay if it doesn’t feel safe,” he said.
Remember that the virus wants large groups to gather together in order to spread. Do not give it the opportunity. We can continue to suppress this disease in Ireland by working together and staying apart.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group has said that one of the concerns is that new outbreaks are “widely distributed”.
“The R-number is now at or above 1.2. There are two concerns now, the number of new cases per day remains high and the pattern has changed from large outbreaks in specific settings to much smaller outbreaks widely distributed across the country,” he said.
“The measures announced this week, asking us to stay apart, aim to suppress Covid-19 in the community.”
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Only €8million!! Seriously!!! I can understand they will do what they can to create loopholes to avoid tax, but still they could have at least come up with a figure that doesn’t quite do violently stick two fingers up at us.
Those “loopholes” are coming to an end in most countries too.
That’s why they’re in Ireland. Don’t believe all this trendy puke about the smart economy.
It’s not just Google here, it’s pretty much any American company. Microsoft are another under investigation in the US where they pay peanuts on the 16 billion or so funnelled thru Ireland. Both investigations could hugely affect us detrimentally but you won’t see the government doing anything about it till its too late as usual.
Taxes on the top 10% are at a 25 year low in Ireland. A bankrupt country cannot afford tax breaks.
If Companies like Google and Starbucks paid their taxes there would be less austerity and Health cuts. Job creation isn’t a strong argument as Google Ireland employs more non-Irish staff. Its immoral, hope they get what they deserve.
Without the tax breaks they wouldn’t be here hiring thousands of staff
Don’t care how many people Starbucks employ in Ireland, 35,000 in taxes paid since 2005 is a disgrace. They can f**k off out of the country, people will still drink coffee but in a Irish company that pays taxes.
#Sean- yes. It would be great if Google, Facebook, Intel, and all those pesky pharmaceuticals left this country, wouldn’t it? We could all thatch our houses, knit Aran Jumpers and sing rebels songs around the hearth. FDI has the country on life support at the moment. Ever hear of not biting the hand that feeds you? Thousand and thousands of jobs= thousands and thousands of people paying tax= thousands and thousands of people buying goods & services in our economy, which creates thousands and thousands of jobs which equals…..
the apologists of this state of affairs are frankly laughable. Sure the construction industry employed thousands, and look at what that got you in the long run in return. I say sort your house out now before you are left with even less.
[Google tax evasion]
Did you mean Google Tax Avoidance?
Supporting Tax avoidance for foreign corporations is a disgrace, and an affront to the people’s of US, UK, EU whose public services suffer, while we get a paltry take on the monies saved. We’re supporting a criminal conspiracy and have a moral and ethical obligation to stop it. If we don’t we can hardly cry foul when they let us drown in debt.
The UK have no claim on this tax. All countries declare their profits in some designated HQ it is the subsequent tunnelling of these profits to Bermuda, not Ireland, which is the only avoidance. if the affairs are regulated it will be Ireland, not the UK which benefits. HMRC is wasting its time, it’s unlikely Google are doing even avoidance there. We should try remove the Bermuda loophole though.
#Niall- the UK and US lobby exhaustively on behalf of indigenous industries to sell armaments to a wide variety of vicious, despot regimes across the world, benefitting from the abject misery of millions around the Globe. They are in no position to lecture ordinary companies on Social Responsibility, nor have they any right to cast aspersions on nations who configure their tax systems to avail of the opportunities that arise. We owe them nothing.
Couldn’t agree more with Sean.!
lets all change our search engines to bing,that will show them
Sinking ship then, innit?
Is that your best rebuttal Vincent? Sounds like you got your economics education from the same place as Brian Cowan considering you think is a leader in attracting foreign investment.
Vincent, massive contribution? That’s a gross over exaggeration. Ireland has the highest rate of corporate fraud and tax indebtedness in the EU. FDI’s cannot fulfil their recruitment drives in Ireland so they attract foreign talent because there is a distinct lack in Ireland. Can you speak more than two languages and proficient in calculus and linear algebra?
Thanks to a shambolic political leadership every man, woman, child and small business has to pick up the tab because the Irish Government are too limp wristed to collect tax from the big boys.
#Sean- off you go and do a course in economics like a good chap.
@Vincent, an economy that is built or sustained on purchasing the benefits of employment is a very poor economic model. It’s only a half-wit that agrees to eat the left over scraps off the floor which is what is has been to Ireland. Corporate megaliths need to pay their tax obligations in full.
Is it fair that Google, Intel and all those pesky pharma’s can use the Irish infrastructure, protection from the police and army and avail of staff who’ve been educated by a system that’s been propped up by state money, but not pay anything back? They are taking your money every year they refuse to pay up in full.
#Sean…by “avail of staff” you mean “employ Irish people”? I’ve no objections to that. I imagine the 15% unemployed in this country would be happy enough to be “availed of”. I wonder why it is that so many other countries are competing so hard with us to secure the FDI we have been so successful in attracting? Perhaps they are “half wits” too? Or maybe the half wits are those who don’t recognise the massive contribution they make and it’s importance at a time of national emergency.
I have long being saying I think it’s obnoxious that these company’s are allowed abuse the tax system and Ireland facilitates it. Pay your fair share where the profits are made. Sooner this is dealt with the better.
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