Business Talk

Health insurance expert Dermot Goode, of TotalHealthCover.ie, said Irish Life will not be content to operate as number three in the Irish health insurance behind VHI and Laya. The new combined health insurer will have 400,000 customers.

http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/irish-life-move-set-to-spark-health-insurance-price-war-34527412.html

Insurance companies “are being made pay for the mistakes of a competitor,” says Jonathan Hehir, managing director of online brokers coverinaclick.ie.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/more-motor-insurance-price-hikes-on-the-way-1.2571670?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Marc O’Dwyer, Big Red Cloud chief executive, said that the data supports the fact that there is an economic recovery under way.

http://www.independent.ie/business/jobs/one-in-three-small-businesses-not-feeling-economic-recovery-34567274.html

Senior tax manager with Taxback.com Barry Flanagan  says the anomaly where a waitress is entitled to less than a waiter must be a source of acute embarrassment to Revenue.

http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/choice/work-expenses-are-worth-claiming-but-system-is-in-need-of-an-overhaul-34567493.html

The survey, undertaken on behalf of life and pensions company Royal London, showed that 28 per cent of people believed that the government should apply strict rent controls, while more than one in five believe that the “red tape” relating to the building of new homes should be cut.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/construction/third-of-public-thinks-state-should-build-more-houses-1.2580923

Protection specialists, Royal London, recently commissioned a nationwide survey, conducted by IReach, of 1,000 people throughout the country to see how they think the housing crisis can be tackled.

https://www.businessworld.ie/news-from-ireland/Nearly-one-third-of-Irish-want-the-building-of-new-houses-to-be-prioritised-563456.html

“The cost is higher than the sales value that you can actually get for apartments,” says developer Aodan Bourke, director of Regency, the residential property development company.

http://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/apartments-are-the-future-but-build-costs-are-an-issue-34555703.html

Leading migration experts, VisaFirst.com, have this week claimed that they have been inundated with calls from Irish workers wanting to travel to Canada, looking for clarification on changes to the application process for the Canadian working visa programme

https://www.businessworld.ie/news/Canadian-Visa-changes-confusing-many-Irish-workers-563030.html

Irish renewable energy firm, Solar 21 has acquired the project rights to build a 22 megawatt (MW) biomass power plant in England.

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/solar-21-to-build-60m-renewable-plant-in-uk-34459917.html