Alan Barrett
speaker
389 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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I'm not in any way, Hazel, suggesting... I was going to say, it's good that we have a Dublin city councillor here who can talk a considerable length about power-washing and the need.
But more broadly, again, I think Mary has summed this up.
There is this huge challenge facing Ireland at the moment in the sense that the political and the policy drift in the United States or whatever like that
is becoming, I think, more and more uncomfortable for us.
And I mean, the two examples that are there, there is the Occupied Territories Bill.
Whatever I or anybody else might think about it, there is clearly a sort of a, you know, a strong lobby of support within Ireland.
And the government are clearly sort of moving in that direction.
And anybody you talk to who's sort of close to business in the United States talks about this sort of being something that they see as somewhat troubling.
And then the issue of regulation issues.
And again, this is a real area of tension between the EU and the United States.
And whatever you think about the rights or wrongs of those situations, I mean, again, Europe has a particular perspective on this.
We have the presidency of the European Union.
And so it's difficult.
And the flip side of that, I mean, I think.
And I mean, the economist in me looking at the numbers all the time, I mean, the level of reliance in Ireland on American investment.
I mean, we talk continually about the corporation tax, but it's not just the corporation tax.
It's the number of incredibly well-paying jobs that are here as well.
It is a real dilemma.
Do we need to compromise our principles?
But, you know, I've said on occasions, this is one of the reasons I love the fact that I'm an economist and not a politician.
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