Emmet Oliver

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420 appearances 10 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 12 Jun

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · Assessing Economic Trends in Ireland and Northern Ireland · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

Is that possibly an explanation for the skills and education profile between the two areas?

Now, you do slightly wade into the political side.

You're talking about the policy environment and how economic policy is formed in the two countries.

And you do just look a little bit at Northern Ireland and how little powers they have necessarily to reshape the economy and raise revenue.

So that is possibly worth looking a bit closer at in future reports.

Now, obviously, the whole idea of a united Ireland is looming in behind some of this, and some people will read your report and say, well, what are the implications if the two jurisdictions were brought together into one unitary state?

Now, I know that's not the part of this report, but I suppose people will ask the question, and you might be able to help us on this, but do you think some of the figures would change radically if the Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland came together as one economic entity?

And finally, just before I let you go, the Irish Times featuring the whole idea that Northern Ireland is not doing well comparatively to the Republic of Ireland, but isn't doing too badly in an overall UK context and outperforms a number of British regions.

So we have to remember that part of the story.

OK, listen, thank you very much, Dr Adele Bergen, who is from the ESRI and co-author of that report.

That indeed is the edit from this particular edition.

Up next will be, of course, Shane and...

Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · The home transaction process report · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

Now, you're welcome back to Breakfast Business with me, Emmet Oliver.

It's great to have you along on this Monday morning.

Now, the average property in the existing homes market has been sold once every 50 years.

Extraordinary number, really.

That's according to a new report from the property portal My Home in association with Bank of Ireland, which found that the rate at which existing homeowners with mortgages move is now less than

than half of the UK level.

And Conal McQuilla, the chief economist of Bank of Ireland, is here in studio to talk me through what's going on.

Conal, you're first of all very welcome.

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