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A CHINESE “POLICE station” in Dublin has been ordered to close, Government officials have confirmed.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said no request had been made in advance to open the station in Capel Street.
Human rights body Safeguard Defenders this week released a report which suggested dozens of security outposts aimed at forcing Chinese dissidents back home have been set up across the world.
The department spokesperson said: “Neither the Chinese authorities nor Fuzhou/Fujian Province made a request in advance to the Department of Foreign Affairs to establish the office referred to.
“In this context, the Department of Foreign Affairs raised the presence of a ‘Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station’ with the Embassy of China in Ireland in recent weeks.
“The department noted that actions of all foreign states on Irish territory must be in compliance with international law and domestic law requirements.
“On this basis, the department informed the Embassy that the office on Capel Street should close and cease operations.
“The Chinese Embassy has now stated that the activities of the office have ceased.
“The Department of Foreign Affairs will continue to liaise with the Embassy to facilitate the provision of all relevant consular and citizen services to Chinese citizens in Ireland.”
This week the Scottish Government and Police Scotland said they were taking reports of a secret Chinese outpost in Glasgow “extremely seriously”.
Speaking during First Minister’s Questions today, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: “I agree these reports are deeply concerning and I want to be very clear that we take them very seriously,” she said.
“Any foreign country operating in Scotland must abide by Scottish law.
“The Scottish Government fully supports an individual’s rights to freedom of expression and that is also an extremely important principle.
“These matters require to be fully and properly investigated and it would not be appropriate for me to go into too much detail, but I do know – and I know this as a result of a conversation I had just yesterday with the chief constable – police are aware of these reports.”
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It isn’t job creation it is job displacement with less regulation. Along with readily available tax avoidance
Bingo. Hailo works for everyone. Über works for Über.
So Uber want to creat 50000 jobs if cities play ball.
In other words if the city councils do away with rules and regulations and let Uber do what they like.
Another case of big business calling the shots .
No thanks
I wouldn’t use an Uber car. It’s an unregulated taxi services that can charge what it likes at peak times. Dodgy.
Uber wants it all.. 50000 k jobs earning crap pay ..
Creation of jobs is great.
uber seem like they are aggressive and
not your usual app based company and i
think they will fall as quick as they rise.
It’s interesting how little traction Uber has in Ireland. Just goes to show the benefits of deregulation.
You have to go through the taxi companies here, so its not the real model. It’s unbelievable that taxi companies here would worry about the safety of passengers if Uber was opened up properly. There are some beauties driving taxi’s around Dublin.
Uber should be shut down unlicensed drivers is a disaster waiting to happen !
It has basically failed in Dublin too as it had to resort to using taxis to operate it’s service..
Have used Uber’s standard service here too. It basically operates here as a hackney service, operated on your phone with some added value, and it’s fine.
The Uber Black type service with random driver pick-up thing is the issue and to be honesty I see the challenges. I don’t think I’d use it.
I tend to try and avoid taxis like the plague… I’m sure as hell not going to pay over the odds for one … I can’t see Uber picking up much traction here.
Uber app needs access to your photos and camera..taxi..!
Use uber in the US regularly. Fantastic service and so cheap.
How many days left till their bubble bursts? 34.5bn ??
The ubers can’t use bus lanes
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