Pension funds need case to invest here

Siptu's odd demand for a €10 billion bribe to support the fiscal treaty aside, the trade unions have been making sensible and constructive proposals about how Irish pension funds could support job creation and economic recovery through investment in Ireland.

Ictu general secretary David Begg has repeatedly made the argument that the billions invested overseas - and Irish private pension funds hold an estimated €85 billion - would be better, at this precarious ...