Jack Chambers

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Today with David McCullagh · Minister Jack Chambers on how to speed up infrastructure delivery · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

So that's one element.

I think there's been a change in the dynamic around judicial reviews, if I'm honest, over the last several months.

I think the focus on infrastructure, the focus on, I think, the greater accountability for people that are actually taking judicial reviews.

We saw, for example, those seeking to take judicial review around Metro.

I think there was a lot of public concern and debate about why people in this particular residential estate would seek to block a major transport project for this city and for the eastern part of the country.

Because they were worried their houses were going to be destroyed.

But again, they pulled back.

And I think we...

Well, look, if we want, there's always going to be in major projects, whether it's in water infrastructure or the crit building out our grid or building the public transport system we want to build across our country.

There's always going to be, you know, there's always going to be people that, you know, may have specific local concerns when we need to build better public acceptance.

And we're conscious of that to show the wider benefits that infrastructure brings and the homes it will deliver.

But it's clear in Ireland we've had a massive growth in recent years that might be on a slight downward trend in 26, but it's still too high.

So a levy is essentially focusing on driving efficiencies and reforms.

And I think this is the problem in our public discussion on expenditure.

There's a need for the different government departments and agencies to find efficiencies, particularly with the growth in spending we've seen in the last five years.

To say that everyone needs more and only more and they can't more efficiently deliver their current baseline outputs isn't accepted by me.

And that's why we decided to reprioritise funding in the context of the Department of Education and why we've given space to departments to find efficiencies.

So depending on their up to 1.4%.

Absolutely, for 2027.

You've cut their budget by 1.4%, Ben, you know.

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