Alan Barrett

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389 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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The Claire Byrne Show · How resilient is the Irish economy? · 25 Jun 2026 podcast
Because this gives you a sense of, well, what's the activity in the system?
And like something that gets planning permission today would normally translate into a house, you know, in a year or 18 months.
Now, what we're seeing is a level of planning permissions that doesn't point to a sort of a strong and sustained acceleration in house building.
So that's really where we're sort of concerned.
We just don't really see it.
We certainly see things looking pretty well, you know, and moving to a certain extent, but just not with the level of trajectory that we'd hoped for.
Yeah, no, you ask an interesting question.
And I mean, look, this sort of mystery continues.
I mean, I think one of the big efforts on behalf of the government now, though, is this sort of accelerated infrastructure program that they're moving on.
So, again, your listeners will probably be familiar that the government is really now proactively trying to identify the sort of the blockages in the system.
And if it's, for example, is it the planning problem?
Is it the need for sort of more water or electricity infrastructure?
So there are a range of things that the government is now looking at and sort of, you know, really hoping that things will start moving.
It's just the difficulty where our forecast horizon is sort of over the next 18 months.
I think all of those government policies, they're very welcome and very positive developments.
It just takes time for these things to, you know, really start paying off.
And so that's why I mean, I hate being negative and I hate being sort of having the sort of a pessimistic tone about this.
But it's that it's just difficult to see that dramatic liftoff over the forecast horizon.
Well, OK, I mean, Ireland is in a really sort of strange position at the moment in terms of the public finances.
So on the one hand, we have a remarkable amount of money flowing into the exchequer.
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