Joe Lynam

Have a great evening.

Thank you.

Shall we start with the economy?

The CSO data on the national quarterly accounts were pretty amazing, I would have thought.

Exogenous shocks.

I was also struck, of course, this week with the amount of corporation tax earned in November.

I mean, 10 billion in a single month.

Of course, the government won't be long about spending it, but it is good for us to at least have the money to be coming in.

Yeah, it is.

The EU is transferring some significant new powers to the European financial regulator.

Tell us more about this.

And if NGOs really wanted to get in touch with these senior officers and directors, they have to go to the CRO to do that?

Now, wearing your digital transformation hat, why can't we set up a company fully digitally and operate it fully digitally and close it down, if necessary, fully digitally?

And also to unlock all the savings out there in Europe, which are huge as well.

Why do we need any paperwork?

Talking about new markets or developing markets, the European Union wants to review the tariffs on Volkswagen electric vehicles made in China.

And then potentially sold in Europe.

Minister, thank you very much for joining us.

That's Niamh Smith, the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise with special responsibility for trade promotion, AI and digital transformation.

Back in a moment.