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    Cost of Irish reunification overblown and benefit underplayed


    Cost of Irish reunification overblown and benefit underplayed

    https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/05/02/cost-of-irish-reunification-overblown-and-benefit-underplayed/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20there%20will%20be%20uneven,and%20the%20benefits%20often%20underplayed

    Posted by Mayomick

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    9 Comments

    1. Bill_Badbody on

      >But Ireland has no liability for UK public pensions incurred before the appointed day on which reunification occurs. The UK does.

      This is not something that they know. So to state that is incorrect.

      Pensions are paid out of current expenditure so its very likely pensions will fall to the new state.

    3. GerKoll on

      Well….when NI votes for reunification the UK will not pay a cent/pence, why should they. NI is costing them a fortune and this is their way out. They will laugh in Westminster and say to the Irish government, “You wanted them, there you go….” and run for the door……

    4. Storyboys on

      But but a west-brit told us it would be 20BN a year with no benefits?

      Are you telling me they weren’t telling the truth?

    6. Icy_Zucchini_1138 on

      I wonder if all the people praising this report will ever bother reading it, or understand anything about economics. Just be honest and get chat GTP to write a  report “tell me what I want to hear about X”  I doubt these economists reports actually change anyones minds 

    7. dropthecoin on

      >>But redistribution, done properly, will be from rich to middle and poor, not from the South to the North.

      What does this mean exactly? Who’s rich?

    8. dropthecoin on

      What needs to happen is we need solid evidence of how much unification would cost each year and who pays for it. Not possible scenarios for example, people saying the UK would/should honour certain debts or the UK or US will give us money.

      Voters, tax payers, need to know exactly what it will mean to them in real terms, all based on confirmed numbers, to make an informed decision.

    9. demonspawns_ghost on

      Why is there all this talk of reunification? Our government can’t manage the counties we have now, so why would anyone in the north want to join the Republic? If anything, they should be pushing for an independent Nothern Ireland and we should be looking to join them.