Our outgoing Ibec President, Paul Duffy of Pfizer, has an op-ed worth reading in today's Examiner on the importance of investment in education and skills. irishexaminer.com/business/compa…

Ibec warns of ‘economic complacency’ and trade storm clouds ahead of election businesspost.ie/news/ibec-warn…

Full house here in Ibec for our manifesto launch.

Great to see this launch. Really important to have more vehicles for people in Ireland to come up with and promote innovative policy ideas. Congrats to Seán and team. Look forward to reading the work in the year's ahead.

Yesterday, we launched our 'Electing for Business' General Election manifesto at an event at our Ibec Dublin office, featuring a panel moderated by Danny McCoy. Watch below where our panel and Ibec's Fergal O'Brien highlight our ambitions for the next Programme for Government.

This is a good piece - worth reading by Paul Deane of MaREI.

The Taoiseach announced two important policies, both long standing Ibec asks, at last night's President's dinner. Unlocking the NTF & establishing a Better Regulation Inititative will help prepare us for rapid technological and regulatory change. rte.ie/news/business/…

Ireland is “definitely not seen as a place” for multinationals to execute major projects anymore due to major problems with the country’s ability to deliver critical infrastructure, according to a senior executive at Ibec businesspost.ie/news/ibec-tax-…

Full house in Ibec and many more online to see the first of our 'In conversation' series with political leaders. First up, An Taoiseach Simon Harris TD. Really engaging discussion covering lots of issues including skills, geopolitics, infrastructure and child poverty.

The interview with Mary currently on Liveline is absolutely harrowing. Incredible bravery to tell her story.

Good blog post on the unanticipated consequences of GDPR specifically (less innovation, more market concentration) and the EUs' role as a global regulator more broadly.

Words from me in this piece regarding the same issues around industrial projects. “The feedback from our members is that we are a lot longer, and significantly slower, at moving those projects through the system than they would be in the rest of Europe." independent.ie/business/irish…

Important points made in this letter. Re the one on research equipment. Regularly hear from companies who have to retrain Irish grads with modern equipment. Tech moves fast and ~1/3rd of equipment in Irish universities is older than the first iPhone and half over a decade old.