Finance Minister Paschal Donohue is due to announce Ireland's Budget 2019 on October 9 and he told a visiting Australia/New Zealand company delegation I attended that "we have an economy that by any measure is doing well at the moment but we have big challenges afoot as well we need to deal with. We're going to find a way through them and part of having to deal with that is to ensure the external trading part of the nation is diversified."

"It was an amazing company," says Joyce, who met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and President Michael D Higgins last week as part of a large trade delegation from Australia and New Zealand supported by the IDA, the Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce and the Trans-Tasman Business Circle. "Without it, you wouldn't have Tony Ryan, Michael O'Leary, Conor McCarthy or Willie Walsh."

New Zealand and Australian Cyber Security Delegation to Israel
23-27 June 2017

New Zealand agriculture will have the chance to tap into advanced agricultural innovation when Fonterra leads a delegation to Israel from 4 – 11 May 2018, coinciding with the triennial Agritech Israel Exhibition and Conference in Tel Aviv - http://agritechisrael.org/

The delegation, led by Fonterra’s Chief Operating Officer Farm Source, Miles Hurrell, is being organised by the Trans - Tasman Business Circle under its Innovation Circle and will promote international collaboration.

Recently we brought Jason Leonard, Director, IBM Watson Asia Pacific, to New Zealand to meet local clients and speak to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle.

Trans-Tasman Business Circle CEO Johnny Weiss pointed out how Mr Key was able to resonate with everyday New Zealanders and “take the people with him”.
“He gave the people self-belief and pride. We are now perceived by Australian businesspeople, who come to visit, as innovative, smart and nimble,’’ he said, also noting how Mr Key had driven the growth of the nation’s tourism sector.