Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

Private investment of more than €1 billion could be required over the next five years to help Ireland close the gap between its healthcare capacity and OECD average levels. Emmet discusses this further with Stephen Beale, an Associate Director at Cardinal Capital Group. 

Thursday's business headlines along with Emmet Oliver.

This week the leaders of Germany, Italy and Belgium called for a way to be created for national governments to pull a brake if proposed EU legislation would make competitiveness weaker in Europe. So should governments have a veto? To discuss with Joe was Lucinda Creighton is a former government Europe Minister who now runs Vulcan Advisory in Brussels. 

Public Affairs executives or lobbyists are supposed to register every meeting they hold with civil servants or State bodies. The agency that monitors that registry is called the Standards in Public Office registry. To explain its workings was Aoife Drudy, from SIPO Commission.

Wednesday's business headlines along with Joe Lynam.

Amarach have conducted a new customer experience survey.   Overall Ireland’s CXi rating internationally rose this year with supermarkets and banks doing much better than in previous years.  To find out more details on the survey findings was Gerard O’Neill Chair of Amarach who carried out this survey. 

This time 2 years ago asking prices for property were rising nationally almost in double digits.  This is according to MyHome.ie, the biggest jumps in asking prices were outside the capital where they rose by 4.8%.  Are we looking at a more sustainable market or perhaps even a correction in prices?    

Joe asked Conall Mac Coille the Chief Economist with Bank of Ireland and Editor of the MyHome.ie reports. 

Tuesday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

The hyperscalers are set to spend ¾ of a trillion dollars this year building infrastructure to meet the demand for AI services.  The Government’s AI summit starts in two days and the ‘West by West’ festival in three days in Castlebar.  So where are Irish companies when it comes to preparedness for technology which will doubtless transform our working lives?  

Joe discusses this further with Sean Blanchfield the CEO of Jentic.

Rossa White has played major role in resuscitating Ireland’s public finances and engaging with bond market investors to help Ireland exit the bailout.

Now he’s joined EY and his first act will have been to assess last week’s budget. Rossa White, Chief Economist with EY  spoke to Joe about his new role.