Tom McEnaney

Russ, thank you for joining us this morning.

I'll let you return to your book.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Good morning and welcome to Breakfast Business with me, Tom McEnany, standing in for Joe Lynham.

Coming up, we'll ask Ian Talbot, the Chamber's Ireland Chief Executive, why their latest survey suggests Irish businesses are simply treading water.

And later this morning, the government will officially launch its very first Government Expo to showcase the needs of public bodies.

We'll ask Minister Eimear Higgins what Expo 2025 might mean for small businesses.

And why exactly did Kingspan's share price jump yesterday?

We'll find out in the markets and keep a weather eye on market reaction to the likely end of the government shutdown in the US.

But first, let's have a look at what it says in the business sections of the papers.

The Irish Independent leads with that Chambers Ireland survey saying trade barriers and tariffs rank well below labour costs and regulatory burdens among the top concerns of business leaders.

We'll put that to the Chambers Ireland CEO, Sean

Elsewhere in the Indos business section, writer Gordon Deegan tells us that concerns over the light-bellied Brent Goose has blocked plans for 580 apartments at Rahini in Dublin.

That's just the latest blockage for the scheme.

In 2021, the High Court noted that the proposed development has clocked up four board planola decisions and no fewer than 10 sets of legal proceedings.

And that's before the geese stuck their beaks in.

The Irish Examiner this morning tells us that the residential construction sector saw an accelerated rate of contraction during October, recording the weakest level of activity since June.

And the lead story in the business section, the Examiner tells us that the pay gap for those aged between 15 and 24 is a very surprising 31%.

The story says that young men out-earned

young women in all bar one of the 13 economic sectors the survey looked at.