Joe Lynam

I wonder where the households are getting ahead of that and saving more because the household savings ratio was up again.

Thanks, Rachel.

Have a lovely weekend.

That is Rachel Ingle, the Chief Executive of Aon Ireland.

That's it for now.

And for this week...

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Did you look at the impact of whether we can improve our infrastructure and whether that would improve the domestic economy?

Now, I know there was a big report out last week, so you may not have had time to include it in your report.

Now, I'll be speaking to the ESRI a little bit later in the program, so I don't want to dwell on too much.

It does set out a series of actions which would speed up the delivery of major infrastructure in this country.

But The Economist magazine has ranked Ireland as the second in the world in terms of economic performance.

And very briefly, overall, you'd say that we're glass half full as we head into 2026.

And one of the reasons we've done quite well is, of course, the pharmaceutical sector in this country and the export of very important prescription drugs that are physically made here.

Most of it being sold to the States, of course.

Now, Big Pharma, they're pretty good at lobbying by the sounds of things.

Thanks, Martina.

That's Professor Martina Lawless, the director of the ESRI.

Indeed, and we will talk about that over-dependence on certain sectors in the Irish economy with the ESRI a little bit later.

Austin, I hope you have a lovely weekend.