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Alison O'Connor

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

I think part of it isn't that what Ireland does is a lot of support roles and those roles are more likely to be impacted by AI.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

They are people working in multinationals.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

I think I saw an average earning figure this week for 150,000.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

A moment for me recently was a friend of mine said that her son, who had done an economics degree, there was a thing when back when I was in college, a kind of a milk round at the every under did business degrees were then wooed by all these big companies that went in at a lower level, kind of counting widgets a lot of the time and stuff.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

But then they progressed on through it and everything.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

So she said her son had decided to do something else, right?

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

Something completely different.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

She said he is now glad he is because a lot of his friends who had places in the big companies set up, they're now being cancelled.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

And that was fairly stark, I thought.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

Interestingly, the big driver of growth in the American economy last year was health, health care.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

And there's absolutely going to be jobs there into the future beyond all this, isn't there?

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

Now, this is kind of related, but a different one.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

The Mail on Sunday cover new get tough policy.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

battle plan for bogus migrants, Alison?

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

When Simon Harris did that a couple of months ago, he was semi-crucified for it.

Brendan O'Connor
Newspaper Panel

And that accommodation they're losing is not going to go to Irish people.