Joe Lynam

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · How we can grow home-grown productivity here? · 12 Dec 2025 podcast

Professor Martina Lawless is the director of the ESRI and is on the line.

Good morning, Martina.

Good morning.

Pleasure to be here.

Now, Martina, can you break down your assessment along scenario lines, i.e.

how our economy would respond to a series of headwinds or scenarios?

Let's start with the competitiveness scenario, whereby wages might fall notably among our big trading partners.

So 3.2% gross national income is still not a bad rate of growth though, is it?

Oh, dear.

We appear to have lost Martina there for a moment.

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.

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.

And what impact would that have on our growth?

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

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