Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
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All right.
There's always this sort of sense about new technologies.
Well, even if they destroy some jobs.
They're going to increase productivity.
And so you will create new jobs.
OK, now that's almost invariably true.
But there's always a sense that in moving from A to B, there can be a lot of people who can be sort of left behind.
OK, it's not necessarily the same people getting, you know, just seamlessly transitioning into the industry.
the new job.
So that's always a worry and we're obviously vulnerable to that.
And then you can have these sort of situations that say, for example, if you have people who are coming onto the labour market at a particular point in time, if they're in a sense victims of that changeover, if you start the labour, you know, your career in a bad situation, it can actually sort of follow you for quite a long time.
So you have those difficulties.
But the additional problem in Ireland is the following.
We could fall into the trap that we have job destruction in Ireland
But the job positives could be elsewhere.
OK, so if you think about the Irish economy.
At the moment, we absolutely are.
But just given the nature of the Irish economy, where we have such a strong foreign direct investment base here, where you have activities, some activities being done here and other activities being done elsewhere.
And this was one of the questions I brought to my ESRI colleagues because they were essentially sort of saying, well, that in Ireland in general, you could see a loss of income as a result.
And I sort of asked the question, well, why would you have a loss of income?
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