Austin Hughes
speaker
415 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Austin Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
And this is, you know, not a flash in the pan.
Last year, we were second to Spain.
This time we're second to Portugal.
It maps out various elements, whether core inflation is very high.
And we talked about that being a global phenomenon, how many parts of inflation are higher.
GDP, and in Ireland's case, they strip out GDP, they use modified domestic demand, employment growth, which is a key element, and stock market performance.
And in that they find us coming second to Portugal, way ahead of laggards like Germany, Japan, the UK, the US.
So, you know, it's good news that's often suggested that the Irish economy is purely a product of the
the multinational sector.
But this is suggesting that at least in terms of macro terms, the Irish economy has done quite well in 2025 again.
Yeah, the Irish Times reports a series of meetings between the spring and the summer between the pharma industry and the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste.
And it concludes that the pharma industry got as much as it could possibly have hoped to expect and that pharma lobbyists then are well worth their Christmas bonus.
Now, what they're talking about is that
The pharma industry raised concerns around, obviously, US tariffs, but also around EU proposals to reduce the number of years that companies have exclusive rights to sell new medicines they develop before generic competition can enter the market.
The EU had proposed to reduce that from eight years to six or seven.
Pharma lobbied the Irish government and probably proposed
partly spooked by the threat of tariffs as well.
The government publicly opposed the EU moves.
The EU backed down on this.
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