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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.
Good morning and welcome to Breakfast Business with me, Tom McEnany, standing in for Joel Lynham. Later in the show, we'll talk to VHI about workplace well-being and the Managing Director of Circle K Ireland will tell us about its new fast charging network. We'll also have the latest from the Irish and international markets. But first, let's have a look at the papers.
Chapter 2: What are the latest tax receipts and government spending figures in Ireland?
Tax receipts and government spending both increased in the first 10 months of this year. That's the lead story in the business supplement of the Irish Independent. Quoting from the latest Exchequer figures, John Burns tells us that the tax take to the end of October stood at 78.8 billion euros, up from 2.4 billion euros or 3.2% on the same period last year.
Excluding the infamous once-off or one-off Apple windfall, the tax receipts of 77 billion euros were still 5.3% ahead of last year by 3.8 billion euros. Mr Burns was busy yesterday inside the same supplement. He informs us that the Irish Museum of Modern Art, or IMMA to its friends, is having a tough time of late.
Inflation, the gallery says, is presenting a risk to its ability to finance its ongoing programme of exhibitions. Emma's fortunes are not helped by a ā¬400,000 reduction in its government grant and a slight fall in sponsorship revenue. Over in the Irish Times, the lead business story is that a Supreme Court judge has sharply criticised Bank of Ireland in a controversial mortgage case.
Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunn said that she was not happy, to put it mildly, and branded it as bizarre that the bank had not told the court that it had sold the mortgage at the centre of the debt judgment case to Pepper Finance.
The business section of the Examiner tells us that the Talbot collection has completed the acquisition of the Absolute Hotel in Limerick City in a deal worth 18 million euros. The Talbot Group has been busy having completed refurbishment of its eponymous hotels in Cork and Middleton. China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race.
That's thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulation. That stark warning from NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang is the lead story in the Financial Times this morning. Huang's remarks come after the Trump administration maintained a ban on California-based NVIDIA selling its most advanced chips to Beijing.
Still on AI, inside the same paper, Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns us that the multi-billion dollar advertising model that has underpinned the internet economy could fall apart due to the rise of generative artificial intelligence. And finally, in the New York Times, we learned that a majority of justices in the U.S.
Supreme Court asked skeptical questions about President Trump's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports from nearly every American trading partner, casting doubt on the centerpiece of the administration's second-term agenda.
Needless to say, the outcome of the case could be decided within weeks. And needless to say, it will have an immense, immense economic and political implication, not only for U.S.
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