Brida Dooley

So I say the market is steady.

is cautious, but is certainly confident.

I would say that the market will still be steady and it will, you know, adapt and it will be forward looking going into 2026.

We do expect moderate hiring and especially in, I suppose, some of those areas I was talking about, the technical, the finance, the supply chain and life sciences, we are seeing growth there.

We are seeing a lot more of the

I suppose the SMEs, the smaller Irish manufacturing companies, we're talking to them a lot at the moment.

And they're talking about a lot of growth expansions, which wasn't there at the beginning or the middle of the year, but certainly going into quarter four, we're having a lot of conversations where 2026 companies are talking about expansion.

Maybe on the multinational side, it has, you know, expansion plans did pause.

I would say they'd certainly start to come back in in 2026.

So Ireland isn't certainly slowing, it's evolving.

And I would say our employers who are looking at retention and recruitment

you know, to start early and get strong going into 2026.

Plan ahead.

That's what I would say.

Employees need to stay competitive.

They need to look internally and look at what they can offer.

They need to prioritize retention.

If they have good staff and good, you know, particularly at mid-level management, they're the ones that we are seeing are more active in the market.

They're the ones that are actively out there looking for jobs.

Retain them, develop them, offer flexibility.