Joe Lynam

I wouldn't mention the All-Ireland final as a Tipperary girl, if I were you, when you're down there.

Enjoy it either way.

Back in a moment with the thoughts of the Singaporean Prime Minister.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

It has been a year since the Dublin Task Force reported and the changes have been incremental at best and glacial at worst.

Dublin accounts for 50% of Irish GDP and pays the lion's share of income tax.

But the Dublin Chamber is not happy.

It wants a vast improvement in infrastructure delivery in capital markets.

in the capital, reform of venture capital schemes and more support for indigenous Irish startups if Dublin is to be Europe's Silicon Valley.

Mark May in the Irish Sun reports that Ireland is set to do a deal with Spain for a share of its solar power through a giant 1,000 kilometre interconnector.

The man who delivered that call to arms last night was Owen Quigley, the president of Dublin Chamber and is with us.

The Minister for Energy, Dara O'Brien, has revealed that the government is set to sign an agreement next year which would see an undersea electricity cable built to Spain.

Good morning, Owen.

Good morning, Joe.

Tell us first, how healthy is the Dublin economy at the moment?

Ireland's electricity system is said to be at a tipping point.

Wind already supplies a large part of its electricity, but limited connections for electric power into adjoining grids bring supply risk.

Minister O'Brien said an interconnector is important for the island nation like Ireland so we can import in future export energy and renewable energy and other energies to our country.

Reuters reports that the EU's top economic official said that the European Commission was considering countermeasures in response to Chinese curbs on rare earth exports.