Daniel McConnell
👤 SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's not trying to micromanage or sit on top.
And I always question this myself.
Like, you know, when you're running an organisation,
do you have to be in the weeds on everything or do you let your people let your team do their job and kind of raise a certain level of problem up to you if and when it comes so that's always for me always kind of an interesting question okay I think we'll leave it there I think that was a very good I think we've done a decent day's job there I think so if you can keep me paying for my season ticket now without having to think about it for the coming years you'll be doing a good job well we can judge with that success yeah that's it
Very good.
Well, listen, thank you very much for joining us here on the Business Post podcast with me, Danny McConnell.
And me, Peter O'Doar.
Until next week, we'll see you then.
Bye-bye for now.
Hello and welcome to the Business Post podcast with me, Daniel McConnell.
And me, Peter O'Doar.
Now, we haven't had a huge number of politicians on this podcast.
I think we've had the Taoiseach, which Daniel Murray, our colleague, our policy editor, managed to track down in Cambridge.
But today's guest is someone who I've been very keen to interview for a while, given his role both as energy minister and as transport minister, because he's at that cross-section of...
an area that is of huge focus for us, which is infrastructure and the growth of the country and the next steps, etc.
So Dara O'Brien, who is the, as I call him, the pugnacious bruiser from Malahide.
I think he liked that.
He did, yeah.
But, you know, someone who has, I think, had to weather a fair bit of criticism given his perceived failure in housing over the failure to deliver 40,000 houses in the year of an election.
but someone who has gone into transport and I had a couple of controversies he's had to deal with be Dublin Airport and the Kenny Jacobs affair which we wrote up quite a bit about but I thought for me it was interesting to kind of hear him describe life as a minister