Alan Barrett
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389 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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Morning, Clare.
Absolutely.
I mean, for quite a while now, it seems we've been talking about sort of international challenges and international uncertainty.
But one of the remarkable features of the Irish economy over the last sort of, you know, 10 years is the fact that the economy continues to to grow.
So looking ahead for the remainder of this year and into next year, we see the economy growing.
We use the measure modified domestic demand.
We won't get too technical or boring about it, but it's, you know, it'll grow by about 2.6% this year, 2.8% next year.
That will translate into sort of ongoing employment increases.
So yeah, in spite of all the headwinds, in spite of all the difficulties, we do see growth in the economy.
But we do see a couple of challenges as well.
So I don't know.
Do you want to move on to the challenges?
I'm afraid it does.
So we have conducted sort of analysis here because we were trying to get a sense of the extent to which the fuel price increases.
How do they follow through into other areas of the economy?
And of course, it's not just fuel prices that have increased.
Fertiliser prices have increased and there's sort of a whole range of other things.
So it's obviously good news that things seem to be moving in the right direction in the Middle East and with the oil price.
But you do have these sort of lagged effects.
And essentially what the analysis showed is that sort of historically, if you look at, you know, when energy prices have spiked, increased or whatever like that, the impact on food prices can be about sort of eight or ten months later.
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