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Seán Keyes 🖐️
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Seán Keyes 🖐️
@Keyes
Executive director of @progressireland
Dublin via London via Limerick 加入时间 Mart 2008
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Zohran Mamdani gets it.
In Ireland, seomraí are being worked over by the civil service. But there's no guarantee that what we end with will match what Mamdani sets out here.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you own a home with a basement, attic, or backyard, chances are you’ve thought about using it to earn a little extra income or as space for a loved one. We want to make it as easy (and affordable) as possible for you to do that. NYC recently legalized ADUs — but for too many New Yorkers, they’re still tied up in bureaucracy and expense. We're fixing that. Our new toolkit at nyc.gov/aduforyou includes preapproved building plans and a financing calculator so you can get right to building. If we want New York to remain a city for everyone, we have to make it easier for homeowners to stay here. ADU for You will do just that.
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Creusot foundy in 1981, forging 26 nuclear reactor cores in a single year. Each can power 1 million households.
Nuclear energy can be a mass-production industry.
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People of Ireland, a friend is organising an Irish language & culture hackathon in Dublin this week! Check it out:
craicathon.ie
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Who REALLY pays corporation taxes? @Sam__Enright took a look.
Sam Enright@Sam__Enright
I spent St Patrick's Day in the most quintessentially Irish way possible: by understanding how tax wizardry affects the capital flows of American multinational companies
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NEW: How our planning system makes the weekly shop more expensive.
We all know that more competition means lower prices, yet our planning system is allowing big supermarkets to block Aldi and Lidl from opening new stores.
- Between 2020 and 2022, Aldi’s rivals submitted 77 planning objections and launched 12 separate judicial reviews designed to block the low-cost retailer’s expansion strategy.
- In 2022, there were 40 separate Aldi stores delayed from opening due to legal challenges and planning objections.
- Tesco managed to get a Lidl store's planning permission pulled merely by threatening legal action.
- In other countries, such as New Zealand, businesses are banned from lodging planning objections against competitors.
- Most objections and legal challenges are based on the 'Town Centre first' policy. The idea is to protect the high street by stopping out-of-town supermarket development. You are only allowed to build out-of-town if you can prove there are no more central sites available.
- The problem is that after 30 years, it hasn't shifted shopping patterns. It has however made shop rents in the city centre more expensive as independent retailers have to compete with Tesco Expresses.
- Economists studying the issue found that it also means we have smaller supermarkets in more expensive (but awkward) locations. This is a disaster for productivity.
- One study found that the policy was responsible for 40% of the post-1996 slowdown in retail sector productivity.
- Another study found that supermarket productivity was 20-25% lower in England as a result.
- And because profit margins are tight in the grocery sector (3%) that means most of that lower productivity is passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices!
Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer claim that their top priority is cutting the cost of living. If they're serious, they would get rid of a 30-year old Town Centre first policy that pushes up prices and fails on its own terms.
samdumitriu.com/p/how-to-cut-t…
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NEW: Britain is the most expensive country in the world to build a nuclear power plant.
The Fingleton Review challenged the Government to deliver a radical programme of planning and regulatory reform to make it cheaper and quicker to build nuclear power plants.
The Government have now published a full response and implementation plan.
Did they deliver 'full implementation' or is it another Labour U-Turn?
Here's @BritainRemade's analysis.
This is a really big step forward.
On safety and reactor design, this is the radical reset of nuclear regulation the review demanded.
On planning, this is the most radical infrastructure reform agenda the govt has put forward yet.
However, it is not 'full' implementation.
Some key measures have been watered down. For example, Habs Regs reforms have become 'updated guidance' and lack statutory underpinning.
Some have been rejected such as the call for statutory time limits for permits and the call to make community benefits a material consideration in planning.
Overall, it's really good news for nuclear (and therefore energy security). This could end up as Starmer's best legacy as PM.
More detail in the blog below.
samdumitriu.com/p/how-serious-…
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Ireland short of firm power to complement renewables 🤝 tech companies short of data centres
RTÉ News@rtenews
Work has been completed on a data centre in Dublin that is not connected to the national electricity grid and instead runs off its own on-site power plant rte.ie/news/business/…
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Onno Erik Blom's foundation, Recoding Government, has a better way to build software for government. He's building government software faster and at ~10% the cost of the status quo. I interviewed him for the newsletter.
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I didn't realize this: Finland, which used to be the absolute star in the West on education, is now on math roughly at the OECD average, only a bit higher than the US (meaning way behind New England), and fell 60 pts in 20 years, worst in the world. What happened?!
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Great piece spelling out the consequences of the EU’s AI Act by @Simon__Grimm simongrimm.substack.com/p/let-european…
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Ah damn. Now I see Ireland's 2017 living with parents figure and the 2022 figure were calculated differently, which ruins the whole point. The last tweet was WRONG. but this tweet will probably perform 10% as well so damage is done :-(
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How's this for two housing statistics. Ireland built the most houses per capita of the countries in the EY Euroconstruct database in 2025; and the % of 30 year olds living with parents in ireland increased more in 10 years than any European country. Can't keep up with demand.
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Ah damn. Now I see Ireland's 2017 living with parents figure and the 2022 figure were calculated differently, which ruins the whole point. The last tweet was WRONG. but this tweet will probably perform 10% as well so damage is done :-(
Seán Keyes 🖐️@Keyes
How's this for two housing statistics. Ireland built the most houses per capita of the countries in the EY Euroconstruct database in 2025; and the % of 30 year olds living with parents in ireland increased more in 10 years than any European country. Can't keep up with demand.
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