Jack Chambers
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860 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Jack Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's not how any negotiation happens.
Uh and and and I expect once the balloting process concludes, it'll be on the trade unions to re engage my own officials and to try and get an a process concluded.
But like I you know I've been transparent and clear that we want to accommodate a pay deal.
within the budgetary parameters.
This isn't unusual though in the context of previous pay deals would have concluded in the Christmas period and a an you know an estimate is put in the budget prior to that Christmas negotiation around what's possible the following year.
And we'll have a similar uh you know we'll we'll have a similar estimate by my own officials on what's possible for twenty twenty seven.
A couple of hundred euro gone.
That's why there's a number of elements to the budget.
I'm gonna so Brian is looking at, you know, interventions that we can make from the energy affordability task force.
How do we give greater uh grant support to families uh to help with the sustainability of energy bills?
And then secondly, using our social protection system to target um lower income households who have you know the most concentration of pressure, and then obviously the income tax adjustments too.
So we are we are conscious of the serious concerns people have on energy prices and that will you know feature in our wider budgetary discussions.
Um child benefit's not going up, is it?
It's a it's a big cost and uh Minister Cleary has has said that you know it'll be challenging to do it in the context of this year's budget.
I think there will be sorry, you mentioned child benefits but I'm saying there's there's different interventions from a child poverty perspective, which were made last year.
But there
think it's unlikely in this year's budget w when it when it term when terms of what's available in the social protection package.
But the
Well, if you look at the level of spend last year on specific measures relating to child poverty, that hasn't been reflected in the data published by the SRI or by others.
I think la the data from recollection from yesterday before it was from twenty three or twenty four data.
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