Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

District heating is where local homes and businesses get their heating from a single source in the area. Which ideally gets that energy from renewable sources such as heat pumps or solar. Last year the very first district heating scheme was announced in Ireland and nine more projects were approved only last week. Pauline O'Reilly, Irish District Heating Association spoke to Joe this morning.

There are plenty of grants and credit around for research and development for companies. But the bureaucratic effort to get them is often a huge disincentive to apply.  Equally small companies struggle to grow because they can't get the qualified staff or the financing. So what should the government announce later today in the budget to make it simpler for SMEs?
To discuss further with Joe was Paraic Burke Head of Tax with PwC.

Monday's business news headlines with Joe Lynam and Russ Mould from AJ Bell.

Blackrock Health group has operating and consulting facilities in Limerick and Galway as well as the Hermitage clinic in Dublin. The group is opening up a new specialist breast check clinic which it claims will speed up diagnosis. To tell Joe more was Dr Caroline Whelan, Group CEO of Blackrock Health.

Kenn Joyce can have you in dozens of places at the same time and speaking up to 30 languages. That’s because he’s come up with an AI chatbot with your likeness and fed with your business’s details. This means your staff can interact with you worldwide and retain full privacy using something he calls ‘bot in a box’.
Kenn Joyce is the founder of iMe AI video explained all about it with Joe,