Joe Lynam

We're going to try and get Martina back.

And when we do, I'll come back to her.

We lost you there.

We're talking about 3.2 percent GNI is not bad, but it could have been better.

Let's move across to another scenario.

If there's a global economic slowdown.

Indeed.

I was reading through some of the commentary when the results came out yesterday.

The farmers appear to have been the main beneficiaries from the rising prices and the supermarkets who are usually in the crosshairs for blame don't appear to be as much to blame as previous sessions.

Yeah, and nearly half have seen a financial impact due to geopolitics.

Tell us more.

Yeah.

In terms of the multinational sector cutting jobs here, i.e., let's say pharma starts cutting jobs rapidly for whatever reason, be that tariffs or be that, you know, efficiencies elsewhere.

Yeah, you mentioned AI.

Are you guys seeing still hiring young graduates or have you seen any impact of AI on entry level jobs?

And of course, if inflation prices continue to rise across the Eurozone, then the next move from the European Central Bank is almost certainly going to be to raise rates.

And what impact would that have on our growth?

Of course, we have seen in America there are problems with graduates getting jobs due to AI, but you've seen nothing yet in Ireland.

Whereas the productivity gap between the foreign investment sector and the domestic homegrown economy is quite substantial.

And you had a look at that gap as well.