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Peter Hamilton has the latest business news, including a look back at the life of Penneys founder Arthur Ryan who died this week. Also Ciarán Hancock talks to David Hall, the mortgage debtor advocate, who expects 20,000 homes to be repossessed by banks or so-called vulture funds over the next six years.
Eoin Burke-Kennedy of The Irish Times and Conall Mac Coille, chief economist at Davy, talk to Ciarán about what's behind the housing market moves. They also discuss the latest exchequer return figures that indicate a continuation of twin trends: a tax revenue boom, and cost overruns at the Department of Health.
Now is the right time for Government to implement widescale and durable pension reform. Auto enrolment can be the catalyst for change which will benefit generations to come.
New research commissioned by Irish Life has indicated that support for the Government’s plan to make it automatic for everyone working to pay into a pension scheme is growing. Belief that auto enrolment would encourage more people to save for their retirement has grown from 84% in 2017 to 86% in May 2019.
Sherry Fitzgerald chief economist Marian Finnegan and Orla Hegarty join presenter Cliff Taylor to discuss some troubling trends in the housing sector. Peter Hamilton has some of the other stories in the news this week including Facebook's crypto currency, Libra.
Peter Hamilton has a roundup of some of the week's business headlines, including Ryanair's plan to add Malta Air to its expanding group of airlines. The chairman of IFAC Seamus Coffey, explains why the council is so concerned about government spending.
As the dust begins to settle on the local and European elections, we look at why, not for the first time, an exit poll was wide of the mark and whether that’s a cause for concern.
Feargal O’Rourke, managing partner of PwC in Ireland, on the global focus on corporate tax and what that means for Ireland. Also high-end Dublin restaurant Luna closed after four years in business and just days after winning the Restaurant Association of Ireland’s best customer service award.
Cliff Taylor speaks about the implications of pressure from public sector unions to end the two-tier pay structure and Dunnes Stores eyes Base Wood Fired Pizza
