Daniel McConnell

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3,044 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3d ago

Daniel McConnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Business Post Podcast · Ep 26: James Browne on housing targets, 'risk averse' banks and putting manners on local authorities · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

You know what I mean? voice-verified

And maybe voice-verified

just a clever political move. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

In order that you're just removing this rod that the opposition can kick you over the head with. voice-verified

Like I mean it was quite a clever political move and almost but again ultimately there will be no more than Darrell Bryan, there will ultimately be a day of judgment, a day of delivery that he has to either stand over and say, I was a success or I was a failure. voice-verified

He may still be a failure, but he just may be much less of a failure than some of his predecessors. voice-verified

And I always tell I think I'm still stuck by because when I hear him and when I spoke voice-verified

Owen Murphy's book rings very loudly in my head, you know, in terms of that it was never housing voice-verified

We gave the government essentially was giving lip service to it being an emergency or being a crisis. voice-verified

But it never got the status internally in terms of the the machinery of government as a Brexit or anything else or COVID. voice-verified

So was it really an emergency? voice-verified

It was, but it just wasn't really kind of make or break. voice-verified

Like to me, politically, that seems incongruous because if this is going to be the thing that you're going to be judged on most voice-verified

Acutely. voice-verified

And this is the thing that you there are votes to play for. voice-verified

Why wouldn't you make it that all of government approach or priority? voice-verified

It just seems incongruous. voice-verified

Now, is that the civil service pushing back on that? voice-verified

Are there power grabs or power plays going on behind the scenes? voice-verified

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