Jack Chambers
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Sep 12, 2026
Matt CooperHOST
Now, we will talk about the Orange One and his arrival to Dublin, and the problems for Catherine Connolly, our president, in just a little while.
Matt CooperHOST
But I wanna start with the forthcoming budget in October, which I think has been strongly influenced by Trump in the way that we've seen this week all the talk between Simon Harris and Jack Chambers, and we've had a bit from Micheál Martin as well about what's going to be in the budget, what's not going to be in the budget.
Matt CooperHOST
But this budget is quickly ebbing away in its significance of the benefits it can bring to voters, because any of the tax benefits that will be brought are just going to be swept away in the cost of living crisis for many voters.
Matt CooperHOST
Now, we can come to the point that there are many voters who are not affected because they have so much money in the bank and so much wealth and the rest of it.
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Daniel McConnellGUEST
It goes back to that risk appetite within government we've talked about before.
Matt CooperHOST
Okay.
Matt CooperHOST
And then what about the relationship between Simon Harris and Jack Chambers?
John LeeGUEST
Mm.
Eamon TorsneyGUEST
And this has been a push, really an issue that's been pushed very hard in the lead-up to the budget by campaigners, trying to if you like, bring a bit of equality to the benefits there.
Eamon TorsneyGUEST
And really, even on the Clare Burns show just on Thursday, Jack Chambers said that it's unrealistic to expect that to happen in this budget.
Eamon TorsneyGUEST
And, you know, that will take time and that he's focused on modest changes to that.
Eamon TorsneyGUEST
He made the same comments at the Chamber speech, which is Irish Times article refers to, that it'll be about the bans and the thresholds that will be changed modestly.
Harry McGeePANELIST
You know, there'll be differences between them in the run-in to the budget, though the differences, insofar as I can grasp them at the moment, are not so much on along party lines.
Harry McGeePANELIST
You know, they're [chuckles] between Jack Chambers and everybody else who wants to, uh, wants to spend more.
Hugh LinehanHOST
What did you make of Jack Chambers' interview with Jack Horgan Jones in Wednesday's podcast, and what he said f- say, on specific issues, like, like his points about the HSE, um, and the excise duty?
Harry McGeePANELIST
He, I, I was, I was impressed with the forthrightness at which he set out the case for fiscal discipline.
Harry McGeePANELIST
It's not something that there is a huge constituency for in Irish politics.
Harry McGeePANELIST
Uh, we know that, um, but, uh, he is appear- in public as well as in private, standing up against demands for more spending.
Harry McGeePANELIST
In a way, this is a kind of a structural flaw in the way that budgets are done, because ministers in the spending departments will spend, you know, the rest of this month and the early part of next month going in, banging the table, demanding more spending for their departments, because that's what the process demands of them.
Harry McGeePANELIST
Jack Chambers, uh, on the other hand, has to keep his spending targets, which have been agreed by all government, all ministers in the government have, uh, agreed them.
Tom ParsonsGUEST
I worked on a subcommittee of the steering group and we developed a minimum standards charter for inter-county players and the cost was an additional 5 million per year over two years.
Tom ParsonsGUEST
So already with the work of equalizing the funding from government, when Minister Jack Chambers equalized the funding, we've gone a long way in funding the female charter.
Tom ParsonsGUEST
And so it's, you know, there's like, that's smoke and mirrors to say that this is a cost issue.
Tom ParsonsGUEST
You know, the GA released their own report from Sheffield University to say that when you consolidate the revenue, Not that the clubs make, but the counties, provincials and centrally, when you consolidate that revenue, it's 250 million.
Mícheál LehaneCORRESPONDENT
There is a view that they will obviously do something around income tax.
Mícheál LehaneCORRESPONDENT
Now, when Jack Chambers was speaking about this earlier in the week, there was a sense that he let the cat out of the bag on Simon Harris when he said it could be about a couple of hundred euro of a difference over a year.
Mícheál LehaneCORRESPONDENT
Simon Harris insisting yesterday that they both get on very well.
Mícheál LehaneCORRESPONDENT
It's nothing like that at all.
John McGuirkHOST
We had reactions to that, which included Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald coming out and saying that she's heard and listened to her voters on immigration.
John McGuirkHOST
We had unrest in Fianna Fáil with Jack Chambers being apparently labelled Jack Thatcher by some of his ministerial colleagues for declining to spend all the money.
John McGuirkHOST
Donald Trump is coming to visit.
John McGuirkHOST
So there's a lot to get through.
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John McGuirkHOST
Same thing applies on all the other platforms as well.
John McGuirkHOST
So thank you very much for all of your support.
John McGuirkHOST
Jack Chambers and Margaret Thatcher are not two people I'd have put in the same sentence, Sarah, but apparently some of his Fianna Fáil colleagues are now doing it.
John McGuirkHOST
There was a piece in the Irish Examiner this week from Fianna Fáil ministers complaining, complaining that basically he's being too stingy with the money, that he's not handing them over enough cash for the budget.
Pat LeahyPANELIST
You know, there'll be differences between them in the run into the budget, though the differences... insofar as I can grasp them at the moment, are not so much along party lines.
Pat LeahyPANELIST
They're between Jack Chambers and everybody else who wants to spend more.
Pat LeahyPANELIST
What did you make of
Hugh LinehanHOST
Jack Chambers' interview with Jack Horgan-Jones in Wednesday's podcast and what he said on specific issues, like his points about the HSE and the excise duty?
Pat LeahyPANELIST
I was impressed with the forthrightness at which he set out the case for fiscal discipline.
Pat LeahyPANELIST
It's not something that there is a huge constituency for in Irish politics.
Pat LeahyPANELIST
In a way, this is a kind of a structural flaw in the way that budgets are done because ministers in the spending departments will spend the rest of...
Pat LeahyPANELIST
this month and the early part of next month, going in, banging the table, demanding more spending for their departments because that's what the process demands of them.
Anton SavageHOST
Can you give us a sense of one individual citizen that you see benefiting from this budget? Because we've heard you say it will benefit those who get up early in the morning.
Anton SavageHOST
Jack Chambers has appended those who work through the night, which pretty much gives us everybody with a job.
Anton SavageHOST
So is there one archetypical citizen where you'd say, when this budget comes through, their life will improve in this material way?
Simon HarrisGUEST
Yeah, it's a really good question.
Greg HughesHOST
But listen, I understand politics is complicated.
Greg HughesHOST
Minister Jack Chambers announced on a podcast this week that he's stripping day-to-day finance autonomy from four regional health areas, including ours, the West and Northwest.
Greg HughesHOST
This following hundreds of millions in overspends.
Greg HughesHOST
Is this heavy-handed centralisation from Dublin a necessary emergency break on runaway HSE spending and poor management? Or does stripping local control just punish regional health services for systemic structural flaws built into the actual health model itself? Cathy Donaghy, what do you think?
Cathy DonaghyGUEST
I feel like this is kind of optics.
Cathy DonaghyGUEST
This, to me, just screams of optics.
Cathy DonaghyGUEST
And Jack Chambers announced it on a podcast as well.
Cathy DonaghyGUEST
You know, I just feel the whole thing is just really, this is the health service.
Alan MorrisseyHOST
And that the impact of the budget measures could be significant and they could, you know, understandably get a little bit excited or optimistic.
Alan MorrisseyHOST
And then they might hear Jack Chambers, the public expenditure minister, describing the budget measures as modest, which is a bit of a cognitive disconnect there.
Alan MorrisseyHOST
So who's setting realistic expectations here? Is it the Tánaiste or the public expenditure minister?
Joe CooneyGUEST
Look, the middle-income workers need to be looked after, and we in government are working together to look after those people.
Joe CooneyGUEST
And it is important the government work as a team to try and achieve the best for these people and those families out there.
Joe CooneyGUEST
And in fairness, in fairness, tarnish their means for finance.
Joe CooneyGUEST
and Jack Chambers are working together to try and achieve this going forward.
Alan MorrisseyHOST
Are they working as closely as they should be? You say it's important the government works as a team, but, you know, there's very different messages there coming from Jack Chambers and Simon Harris, you know, working closely on the budget.
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