{"id":412991,"date":"2026-04-23T06:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:03:21","slug":"investing-in-irelands-future-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412991\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Ireland\u2019s future \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir,- The recently touted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/03\/31\/new-savings-and-investment-plan-will-only-carry-small-flat-tax\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/03\/31\/new-savings-and-investment-plan-will-only-carry-small-flat-tax\/\">State savings scheme<\/a> needs to consider the potential for investing in Ireland. Many commercial semi-State bodies, infrastructure and development bodies, finance and advisory bodies, as well as universities, local authorities and housing bodies borrow money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">I would much prefer if the proposed scheme saw investment potential in these organisations, keeping money at home and investing in Ireland\u2019s future. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">PAUL BUTLER,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bridgetown,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Killaloe,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Clare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir,- The recently touted State savings scheme needs to consider the potential for investing in Ireland. Many commercial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,181197],"class_list":{"0":"post-412991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-state-savings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}