NCPC urges businesses to maximise remote working benefits

Remote working has the potential to bring economic, social and environmental benefits – but some enterprises may struggle with additional costs, according to the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council. In a new bulletin, the NCPC says enterprises could secure productivity and competitiveness benefits from remote working arrangements with a broader pool of talent, better retention…

‘Faster’ process on the way to help small firms restructure

Minister of State for Trade Robert Troy has said a more cost-effective and faster administrative process will be put in place before the summer to enable “viable, vulnerable” businesses to restructure. He said the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill targets small and micro business. They make up 90% of companies registered…

Foreign investors accounted for 78% of property funding between 2017 and 2019

€4.2 billion in capital was pumped into the Irish commercial and residential property market by foreign private finance providers each year between 2017 and 2019, new analysis has found. This represented nearly 78% of the total private funding in each of those years, when around 13,000 residential units were built, the report by Irish Institutional…