Billionaire Denis O’Brien thinks university graduates are “entitled”, remote working is a bad idea and HR professionals are “weak” people who “also want to work from home”. In a free-ranging speech at a conference this week, he criticised a “lack of joined-up thinking” on infrastructure.
O’Brien, who has personally been tax resident in Malta and Portugal, also took aim at the State for being “complicit in facilitating global tax avoidance” by big US technology giants. “This is perfectly legal and within OECD rules,” he acknowledged. But, he went on – pertinently, or so critics of his own tax arrangements might say – “the question is: is it acceptable?”
Tech billionaire John Collison thinks Ireland is hopelessly inefficient, stymied by too much regulation and too many quangos. Airline boss Michael O’Leary made headlines during the general election campaign a year ago for making one of his Statler and Waldorf-style pronouncements on how he wouldn’t employ teachers to get things done.
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