New Train Service from Newry

[Colm Moore]

Originally Posted by dowlingm

Do Eurocratic rules allow State bodies to require their employees to live in the State and pay the taxes that keep their employer afloat? Presumably not. Oh well.

There is a frontier worker regime in place. However, both here and the UK treat each other as home territory for income tax purposes.

With the marginal constituency improvement programme aka decentralisation programme, the government did try to insist that, eh sorry, force workers to live where they work, which is a bit outrageous to force on existing workers.

The Job Centre in Holyhead did a deal with Stena for unemployed people to commute on the fast ferry to work in Dún Laoghaire.

In any case, don't Irish Rail staff have 'free' company travel passes? I'm not sure about the cross-border element.