Jack Chambers
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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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We're driving reform.
We're driving accelerated delivery across a number of areas.
And just to give some tangible examples of that,
The reforms I've introduced have resulted in the Waterford Wastewater Treatment Plant half a year being shaved off its delivery timeline.
The Greater Dublin Drainage Project, which is a critical project in terms of water infrastructure for the east coast of Ireland, that a year has been shaved off.
That is an example.
So a lot of what I've been doing over the last number of weeks is cutting excessive process, cutting a lot of the crap out of bureaucracy, which has built up over recent years, which has been slow, which has had a degree of paralysis and ensuring we have a delivery first attitude across the public service.
And to build more homes, we need to have the water systems, the electricity and transport connectivity to build the homes that people require.
And that's why, as a government, we've prioritised investment in infrastructure over the next series of years.
And I'm confident people will see a lot of the projects that have been listed and people are maybe sceptical about over the last 10 to 20 years, they're actually going to see shovels in the ground, the likes of
Metro, for example, I expect will be commenced.
The Greater Dublin Drainage Project, multi-billion euro projects, a lot of our regional road connectivity with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, a lot of the projects which people have been waiting on for years, we want to get to construction, get to completion.
And if you look at the multi-annual investment we've put into infrastructure, it's grown from, you know, 16 billion only a couple of years ago to nearly 20 billion euro this year and continuing to grow over the years ahead and
The pace of delivery will improve with the critical infrastructure bill will conclude in the next number of weeks.
And that allows us to accelerate it through a legislative direction and will make a big impact on a lot of infrastructure.
Well, I absolutely will.
And I think we've lost the balance in what's happened in the last number of years.
And that's why I'm going to publish risk appetite statements where essentially, as Minister for Public Expenditure, with wider responsibility for the public service, backing them to have a greater risk appetite.
Because we don't have a choice with some of these critical infrastructure projects in terms of our grid.
Some of the roads, the public transport projects, the water projects... But I can see this making a nice conversation at the Public Accounts Commission when things go wrong and there's an overspend.
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