The Irish economy has grown rapidly in recent years, how long can it continue?
On this week’s episode of Inside Business with Ciarán Hancock, Chief Economist at Davy, Conall MacCoille, explains why labour shortages and capacity pressures are putting the brakes on growth in some sectors here. And Irish Times Economics Correspondent Eoin Burke-Kennedy runs through the headline details from both the exchequer receipts and the Summer Economic Statement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What are the key challenges when attracting new investment here?
On this week’s episode of Inside Business with Ciarán Hancock, IDA chief executive Michael Lohan tells us how housing, energy supply and a ready pipeline of new talent are need to keep Foreign Direct Investment flowing into the country. Michael and EY partner Feargal de Freine discuss a new report from EY covering 44 European countries on where Ireland sits in the competition for foreign direct investment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Is mortgage interest relief a really bad idea?
With the European Central Bank raising rates to a 22-year high, should Sinn Féin’s proposal for an introduction of mortgage interest relief be entertained by Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien?Brendan Burgess, founder of the consumer forum, askaboutmoney.com, thinks it is a poorly thought-out plan. As he tells host Ciarán Hancock, despite the increases in mortgage rates, most mortgage holders are not in distress and can cope with the higher interest. And with corporation tax receipts likely to exceed €26 billion this year, €2 billion more than the Department of Finance is currently forecasting, should that equate to a bumper giveaway budget come October, or will a lid be put on spending?Eoin Burke-Kennedy, Economics Correspondent with the Irish Times, explains that perhaps following the Norwegian model of sovereign wealth is the way to go given our growing surplus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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‘You can’t decarbonize without digitization, you can’t increase digitization without data centres’
With the latest CSO figures pointing to data centres in the Republic using as much electricity as urban households last year despite an effective moratorium on new connections to the grid in the Greater Dublin Area, does the proliferation of data centres here in recent times represent a real threat to our carbon emissions goals?Ciaran Hancock is joined by Irish Times Business Reporter Ian Curran to talks us through what those latest CSO figures mean, while Director of Cloud Infrastructure Ireland, Michael McCarthy and Energy Researcher at UCC, Paul Deane, give the pros and cons of so many data centres setting up here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Accountability for bankers and how it will work
Fifteen years on from the 2008 financial crash, a new accountability regime is due to come into force in Ireland for senior executives in the financial services industry here. In March, the Central Bank launched a three-month consultation period on key aspects of the Individual Accountability Framework for bankers. Derville Rowland is Deputy Governor at the Central Bank of Ireland with responsibility in this area, and she joined Ciaran Hancock to explain how this new regime will work and what will be expected of financial firms and their executives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A weekly look at business and economics from an Irish perspective hosted by Irish Times Business Editor Ciarán Hancock. Produced in association with EY. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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