What does the UK, France and the Netherlands have in common?

[gaelic cowboy]

I know Ireland has a bunch of buildings built by the British, should they claim the costs back? Should they claim the cost for building up Jamaica, or Hong Kong? Should Spain for Buenos Aires or Havana, or France for Casablanca or Pondicherry?

Technically any Irish buildings from before the union were paid with Irish money, it might have be stolen but you could argue we were repaid for them by taking them over on independence.

Anything after Act of Union was actually paid for in the treaty and ordinary people were of course still paying rents to the british for various land reforms until the 30s.