Joe Lynam
speaker
2,756 appearances
106 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 23 Dec
Joe Lynam’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The number of judicial reviews on planning decisions are on target to double this year compared to last year, and only this week a local goose population prevented the building of 600 homes in Dublin.
My next guest built 2,400 homes last year, up 77% on the previous year.
But he's exasperated at the pace of getting things done in this country.
He's Stephen Garvey and he's the Chief Executive of Glenveigh Homes and is sitting in front of me.
Good morning, Stephen.
Good morning, Joe.
Why can't we get stuff done here?
And I suppose from there... This is for environmental impact statements.
And let's break down some of the stuff you said there.
Why are there so many judicial reviews?
And who can we kind of point the finger at to a certain extent?
OK, I presume you read the John Collison diagnosis of the problem.
They said there were too many quangos and that politicians had stepped away from responsibility and outsourced responsibility to these hundreds of quangos.
And it's going to be presented to Cabinet potentially next week.
Your profits doubled last year to 113 million.
There were those who will say that you could afford to build cheaper homes.
That's Stephen Garvey, the Chief Executive of Glenveig Homes.
Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.
Probably only one product that comes from goats that can command very high prices.
And that's cashmere, of course.
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