Philip Boucher Hayes
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3,375 appearances
85 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Philip Boucher Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dr. Paul Davis, Associate Professor of Management at DCU Business School, a procurement expert.
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Paul, good morning.
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How are you?
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What's your take on this deal?
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Is there an element of moral hazard here, though, I wonder?
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And the possibility that you're sending a signal, we've got a big, fat, open checkbook, we're prepared to pay above market value, all you have to do is threaten judicial review.
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As you say, as you point out correctly, there are all kinds of commodities that come into play here and time is a commodity that should be considered.
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I wonder though, to what extent is public support a commodity?
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And if in the context of a potential 19 billion euro bill, public support for this project begins to wane, well, then political support for this project could also begin to wane.
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And it might end up running over the lifetime of its build into political problems or headwinds.
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It strikes me as well that we seem to think of ourselves as being somewhat unique in a European context anyway and always being over budget and over time in the delivery of these big infrastructure projects.
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When, truth be told, when you start reading European newspaper headlines, their big scale projects are running into exactly the kind of same difficulties that we are.
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OK, thank you very much, Dr. Paul Davis and Cillian Woods from the Irish Times.
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51551, the text.
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Why did the Metro have to go to Ranelagh?
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That area already has the Lewis.
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The Metro could have stopped in Stevens Green and linked up with the Lewis there.
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It seems crazy.
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Let's get on to Metrolink about that, I presume, because the more links, the better the fluidity, the better the connectivity.
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TikTok has helped turn trips to pharmacies in France and Italy into essential travel rituals.
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