Michael O'Leary
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257 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Michael O'Leary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I go back, you know, to the days when you had Charlie Hawhey or Charlie McCreevy was in finance.
Things got done.
They weren't run around by their civil service.
Minister, you can't do this.
Minister, you can't do that.
Charlie McCreevy told me a great line once.
He said, you know, if you ever want to get something done in government, he said, if you ask civil servants, can I do something?
It will never be no minister you can't or we'll have to refer that to the Attorney General.
Oh, it's a very complicated idea.
And Charlie said...
Tell the civil service, we're doing this, now tell me how it gets done.
And he said, the civil service will actually respond to that and will get it done if that's what the minister tells them he's going to do.
Exactly.
Just get it done.
I mean, we have a manager meeting at 8 o'clock every Monday morning.
Everybody has a list of action points by Friday.
Get it done.
I mean, the cabinet of this country meets at 12 o'clock on a Tuesday.
So there's half the week is gone already.
It sends most of the afternoon.
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