Owen McGee
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1,739 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Owen McGee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have a good idea what's going on.
So I've had a couple of interactions here.
I've been into the Department of Finance and spoken to a couple of people who are constructing this product, if you want to call it that.
I was at a roundtable in the department as well where Minister Troy and Minister Harris and Tanisha Harris were in attendance and kind of gave an idea of what...
the roadmap looks like.
But one of the things that's very clear is I actually don't believe anything is actually set in stone as to what's going to happen.
And we won't know what's going to happen until Budget Day.
And that's very clear.
But I do think what the intention is here and what's trying to be achieved here is that as a country, we are great savers.
So we save about one euro in every eight euro that we earn.
So we're very good at saving.
But as investors, we're not great.
So if you look at it, less than one in five people in Ireland will have any type of financial instrument, financial product that is investing money.
And when I say investing, I'm talking about, yes, I'm talking about shares and I'm talking about bonds and all those scary things.
Yeah, we tend to leave it in the bank or the credit union.
We have £170 billion sitting in banks.
Never mind on Post and Credit Union.
We're talking about the banks there, £170 billion sitting there at the moment.
And when you compare us to the likes of Sweden, about 46%, 48%, let's say one in two people in Sweden will have an investment instrument of some description.
And we're really, if you think about it from a European perspective, we're very far behind as investors.
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