Catherine Doyle

So it's something we need to continue with.

And we need to be very mindful that we do that as sustainable as humanly possible.

I think Ireland has done really well over the last 30 years to turn our economy around.

I mean, if we think about when Microsoft started 40 years ago in 1985 in Ireland, remember at that point it was a 10-year-old company.

We had 17% unemployment.

Yeah, he was in Sandiford opening the office, which was less than 100 people and did localisation services.

So I think we have done a phenomenal job building our economy over the last 30 years.

And using foreign direct investment to underpin that, I think, was a very clever way for us to actually step into that space.

And it has resulted in putting us now fourth in the world for the use of AI and AI diffusion, which sets us up really well, you know, for the next 40 years.

which I think is fantastic.

I think leaning in to skilling our SME sector and ensuring that the, you know, the startup community, et cetera, is supported in Ireland to drive that and continue to drive that level of innovation natively out of the country is really important.