Louise Byrne

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598 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Sep

Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

We have money to invest in services and we have money to implement tax cuts.

The issue is the money is not being spent properly.

And I mean if you listen to Jack Chambers, he's bl he's blue in the face saying that departments need to go back and look at what the money they're spending.

Are they spending that well?

How can they reallocate funding without just looking for more?

And there are serious questions to be asked about do we just keep giving

a department an extra two billion here, three billion euro here on budget day, and then it goes up and up and up and up.

And what are you getting for it?

Like the amount of money we're spending on health, we should have the best health service in the world.

And yet we have waiting lists, we have people waiting for surgeries.

We have people I heard of someone I know recently who was in hospital, sat on a chair for twenty-six hours in AE.

And the amount of money that is going into health, we should not be having situations like that.

So we have the money, it's how we're spending it, it's not the fact we don't have it, it's the way it's being used.

What if you don't what if you don't have the two euro?

Yeah, big time.

So what the current plan is is to reverse or to start reversing the excise cuts that were put in place in March from the first of September on.

So you have a reversal on the first of September, the first of October, the first of November, and then essentially in December it goes back.

It's normal, but I think the real question is for the government, what is happening with the price of oil?

As we have seen the situation in the Middle East is so unstable.

You have the pr price of a barrel of oil fluctuating.

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