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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Well, I think we'll have to make the case that if, for example, 10 projects that are delivered quicker, one may go...
May not go to plan, but I think we're better to make the case on speed of delivery over a cautious, conservative public service where process supersedes progress.
And I think we need to increase a risk appetite, cut out some of the guidance and the process which has built up over the last number of years.
It's to stop money being wasted.
Some of it's there, but some of it...
The cost of delay is enormous.
We know with some of these projects, it's costing tens of millions of euro every month or quarter that's lost because of internal processes in certain instances.
Judicial reviews where, again, they're being weaponised by narrow interests who want to undermine the public objective of getting things done.
And that's why we're reforming this in terms of legal reforms which we're introducing.
We've capped environmental scale of fees.
Why we're bringing through regulatory changes to drive delivery.
And I think this is what will build the growth and prosperity for Ireland over the next number of years.
It will deliver the thousands of homes we want to see built across our country if we get our infrastructure right.
And the only way we're going to do that is driving the reforms which we're advancing through legislation and improved regulation, but also ensuring we have a greater risk appetite.
Well, there's obviously, people will still have a right to take a judicial review, but the grounds to take one will change.
That's where the work of Minister O'Callaghan around the Civil Legal Reform Bill, the work of myself and Minister O'Brien have undertaken with environmental scale of fees.
And also the critical infrastructure bill to give clear prioritisation and direction for infrastructure delivery.
But people can see this.
There's a huge weaponisation and growth of judicial reviews.
People trying to stop, delay and frustrate the delivery of infrastructure that our country needs for the future.
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