Joan Burton

But then they can have a good time as well from time to time.

You know, I don't want to sound like a total accountant.

And is the government currently doing that?

I think they could talk to people more and they could get people more involved in what are their own financial plans.

Have they a way of saving?

Do they want to do up their house, for instance?

Do they have to save for that?

You know, there's a whole lot of things where information could be available to people and, you know, the local bank and credit unions and so on.

We now have, I think, much stronger financial institutions, whereas, you know, when the crash came, it turned out that, you know, the emperor had no clothes.

Let's say that happens.

Would we be back in 2008?

First of all, I'm not sure if Donald Trump has the power to do that.

He is obviously very close to a lot of the very big tech people.

He is the president of the United States.

He's very important to them.

I think we just have to...

You know, I mean, the Americans aren't stupid.

If they want to have markets in Europe and so on, they have to have a presence here as well.

They can't just say, like, we'll send our stuff over, you send your money back and that's the end of it.

And it suits them very well to have ancillary or secondary companies in Ireland, in other European countries.