Jack Chambers
speaker
860 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Jack Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And even without the issue which emerged in the Department of Education, I believe that should be the focus of government.
We've a lot of opposition politicians who come into your studio who want double digit levels of of spending growth.
They want to cut taxes.
That's a role.
to ruination for Ireland.
We need to ensure that we've pr promote sustainability of the public finances, protect investment in infrastructure and housing, but also where the state gets out of the way in certain instances, in terms of are how we regulate within the economy and that we enable enterprise to happen and function and grow.
Well I I think there's there's a there's X and people in
large suades of the public service who uphold who actually fulfill the budgetary allocation that they've been given.
And in fairness, most government departments and agencies are within their budgetary allocation.
And we have to be fair to them as well.
There are certain uh elements, I mean with reference to the health system that have shown ineffective management of their budgets.
And ultimately the the outworking of that is that it
Does have an impact on what we can do in other areas.
So we do need to enhance the control environment and and then and also force greater trade offs on who we recruit, where we recruit, and how we're more strategic about that so we can ultimately have sustainability of the decisions we make and uh and and have better budgetary controls, which I'm trying to prioritise.
The Claire Byrne Show with Aviva Insurance.
Well, look, we're setting out our clear priorities as a government.
And what we're absolutely clear about is that we want to reward work and support workers right across our economy.
We've 2.8 million people working in Ireland and paying significant amounts of income tax, working hard.
And people, I think, the feedback we get is people not maybe seeing...
the upside of that after last year's budget.
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