Emmet Oliver

This is Emmett Oliver with Breakfast Business.

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

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

This morning sitting in for Joan Lynham and we have a busy show coming up.

Now, we oftentimes talk about Northern Ireland versus the Republic of Ireland in whole loads of political context.

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

We'll be finding out from her about a report on the opaque home transaction process.

But what about in economic terms?

So a lot of people not happy with the way homes are sold in Ireland and how it's having a negative effect on housing supply.

The government is today launching a new report on assessing economic trends in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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

We'll also have details on a new government report addressing economic trends and comparing the Republic of Ireland report

This is the first report in a new annual series from the ESRI examining economic developments across the island to see, I suppose, which ones are performing and in what way.

than half of the UK level.

with Northern Ireland across a number of economic metrics.

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

And, of course, we also have markets for you.

And I'm now joined by Dr Adele Bergen, who is one of the co-authors of this report.

We looked through the papers this morning.