Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
I remember him talking about that amidst the crisis where maybe some pure people might advise him, you know, don't kind of give us your, you know, people are in a worse position.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Yes, you miss your family, you know, maybe don't talk about it publicly.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
There's a bit of empathy in his position with everybody else.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
I mean, like we're forever talking about planning and this is the body that is at the center of it.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
And every industry you deal with, every, you know, politician, it all comes back to planning an awful lot at the time.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
I think like for Ancama Shun Planola, On Board Planola, as it previously was, there was two things.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
There was the big scandal and, you know, the controversy and there was kind of,
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
But it also just seems to be a real resourcing and expertise issue that has been there as well.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
So there's kind of two reform strands running concurrently to each other.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
And in fairness, going by what he said in the interview, they're making some progress.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
I think you forget just how crazy it is to have a public pandemic and a cyber attack of the scale of the one the HSE suffered at the same time.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
When you're in it, like we all knew individually the scale of both of those things, but you kind of forget a few years on.
Ep 17: Paul Reid, chair of An Coimisiún Pleanála and former HSE chief executive officer - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer