There's undoubtably tons of red tape for them to navigate whenever they enter a new territory. See the linked article for the hassle they had in the States.
They also tried setting up in Ireland originally but some Irish banker pretty much laughed them out of the room by the sound of things when they had a meeting. Is there any wonder why the US is a more fertile environment for entrepreneurship?
Given what Irish bankers did to the country, I wouldn't give much credence to their opinion. Unfortunately they still pull the strings and have incredible political clout. I'm not even Irish (though I lived there a few years) and it makes me sick thinking what the banks did, and then to foist it off onto the Irish taxpayers. Ireland's loss is the US' gain!
