Robert Troy

I'm delighted to be joined by Linda Daly.

She's a business reporter with the Sunday Times and also Robert Whelan of Rockwell Financial.

Robert, you're also welcome.

Now, power struggles and name-calling as quarrels rage ahead of Budget 2027.

Who is Jack Thatcher, Linda?

And we're getting all the little snippets of what we might get and it'll turn out better.

So we'll all be happier at the end of the day.

Robert, it looks like we might be heading for some sort of disagreement around housing.

I think there's any TDs who are having three-day hangovers, maybe they do need a mandatory period of reflection before they go into a pub the next time.

And there is the kind of usual stuff coming up, like a lot of politicians, including fairly senior politicians like Robert Troy, have been throwing around this figure suggesting that because there was 10,000 more first appointments than second appointments over a five-year period.

And I heard Peter Roach saying this, that you could infer that there's 10,000 children alive today because of the mandatory three-day wait period, ignoring the fact that some of those women probably travelled.

in an early pregnancy, some of them probably had a spontaneous miscarriage and just this kind of like, this kind of awful sense of deja vu of being dragged back to a debate that I think the public wanted to end in 2018.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the, you know, we'd had kind of, big stories before that, you know, there was, there was a board plan and the Robert Troy and the Damien English stuff, but that the Nile Collins stuff, there was that it, um, Everyone got quite tribal about it.

It was fun to see, you know, both the likes of Michal Martin and Fianna Fáil, equally people who were quite anti-Nile Collins and decided as a result that they were quite pro-the-ditch.

So it was fun.

Yeah, so published the Monday of this week, so yesterday for us recording a couple of days back for when you're listening to this.

So Tanisha Minister for Finance, Simon Harris, alongside Minister of State, Robert Troy, they published what they called the Roadmap for Taxation of Retail Investment here in Ireland.

So essentially what it is, is we've talked an awful lot about these new investment accounts that are rolling in.

So it was outlining what that's going to look like You know, it's something that we've been waiting for for ages.

He's a managing director of D&G Financial Services.

He was one of the influencers invited to this roundtable discussion with the Minister of Finance and the Junior Minister, Robert Troy.

And he said it would be this wraparound thing.

So it's not an account per se.