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A SURVEY of hundreds of Irish small and medium-sized businesses has found that many remain broadly dissatisfied with the performance of the government in improving business conditions.
The quarterly government satisfaction survey from ISME, the association of small and medium enterprises, shows a slight increase in satisfaction since the last survey, but that satisfaction rating stands at -57 when aggregated among various factors.
This is marginally improved on the -62 rating from three months ago, but remains close to its overall bottom.
Dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the banking crisis, and with the impact of business costs, helped keep the sentiment down.
The rating on the response to the banking collapse, at -74, “clearly demonstrates the frustration felt by business in the ongoing saga of the banks not playing their part in the economic recovery”, ISME said.
“The fact that the Government has had to introduce the Microfinance and Partial Guarantee indicates precisely the negative input of banks since being bailed out in September 2008,” the body explained.
The score on business costs stands at -72, illustrating anger with what ISME described as “continuing obfuscation and dithering on the public sector costs within Croke Park”.
The survey showed optimism about the government’s dealings with the Troika, however – the score for Troika relations stood at -23, an improvement of 11 points in the last three months.
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Increases in VAT..enforcing payment of wages during sick leave..banks freezing credit that are controlled by the government..increases in Prsi…any wonder there’s no confidence in the Kenny Circus.
Can’t believe you’re suggesting workers shouldn’t be paid for sick leave. It’s incredibly hypocritical to complain about the governmemt making it harder for you to get by when you’re complaining about something so basic that helps other people get by.
No problem with the State paying sick leave Evin but when you are trying to keep your chin above water during this economic sh*t storm, it’s ludicrous to expect a small business to pay someones wages when it can just about cover its weekly wage bill at best.
If you yourself are a business owner and you fall sick, do you dock your own pay for the amount of time you are sick?
It’s not just SMEs Bell-Enda
Would it not be easier to report on those who are satisfied with the governments performance? That would be the Troika and who else?
There would be a bit of a problem there Kerry. Not enough of us speak German .
Do like the French do when they not happy, shut all ports in protest!!! everything must come to a complete stop!
we need the unions to support that . and. that won’t. happen
SME pay the unions fee to represent them. Time for the dog to start waging its tail, instead of the other way round.
The model of banking just isn’t working. The EU is making it worse. All the banks are foreign owned. The names are misleading and calling them pillar and state adds to confusion. I do have a question if Wilber Ross owns 9% of BOI, and BOI got 45 billion bail out, did FG/Lab effectively give an American billionaire 4 billion?
enda and co. never had to run a small business . thy don’t understand what its like to try and keep up wit there every increasing
taxes . rates water charges. and all the stealth taxes that. thy keep pulling out of. there Ass. . . yet we are ment to pay. all this while our turnover gets smaller . week on. week . . FACT. MOST SMALL SHOPS HAVE A TURN OVER LESS THAN ENDA AND GILMORES WAGES PER WEEK . AVERAGE CORNER SHOP HAS A TURN OVER OF. LESS THAN 5K now pay. all expenses from that
total left for shop keeper after expenses . jack SHITE .
Everyone says they’re broke. How much is jack shite?
Why would you expect thanks just a load of parasites living off your work. Time to stop being made a mug of join the Labour Party screw your neighbour and never do a days work again. Simples
Evin a lot less THAN your dole. and before you reply . do you own a shop . are you self employed . if. the answer is no then. don’t. comment we the shop keeper and self employed are the back bone of. this country . . we create the jobs we collect vat on. behalf of. the government . and get no thanks for it . except penalized for been late wit payment . . every month the miracle of. the 5 loafs and 5 fish takes place in every small business across Ireland.
John, lets not get all exclusive here in the pain party. Without the consumer, you dont have a business. Therefore you dont “create” jobs. What’s good for the consumer, i.e everyone in the state, is ultimately good for you. There’s other’s beyond the self employed that need a break too.
I’m not self employed and I’m not on the dole. I work and pay taxes and spend my money which helps create jobs. I don’t see why you’re the backbone. I’d say everyone that works and spends money in this country is the backbone.
I happilly pay any taxes I owe because I know people who don’t have money need me to. We pay some of the lowest taxes out of any developed country in the world and yet we still complain.
Maybe the problem isn’t with the government or with taxes. Maybe the problem is with how your business is operating, whether you’re catering to your customers needs, and whether you’re reinventing yourself enough to still be relevant to the current market.
You got no thanks and there is none coming your way either!!
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