Jack Chambers

Oireachtas committee chairman holds two senior Ministers and their officials in otherwise empty room for 40 minutes

Potential impact on local habitat and concerns around a lack of planning fuel discontent

Labour TD Ged Nash says the way details of sums involved are being presented by Ministers ‘is anything but transparent’

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council rebukes Department of Public Expenditure for poor budgeting

Have new curbs on spending made top Department of Public Expenditure official David Moloney Ireland’s most powerful civil servant?

Critical Infrastructure Bill will be a disaster for Ireland’s climate commitments

Jack Chambers says action plan to speed infrastructure projects already yielding results

Party faithful give mixed views on Micheál Martin’s tenure, with no obvious challenger emerging amid concerns it is ‘difficult to find a TD who spans the generations’

Minister addresses Fianna Fáil ardfheis in Dublin as party braces itself for possible double byelection loss

‘Independent analysis and research support’ for department currently cracking down on overspends elsewhere

Party struggling to make impact in upcoming Dublin and Galway byelections, polls show

The Government appears to be ignoring the risk of a prolonged energy crisis

No party can claim to have ‘something for everyone’ when it has a woman problem like Fianna Fáil’s

Tánaiste Simon Harris expects former taoiseach to ‘reflect’ on ‘any hurt or harm’ remarks have caused

An Taisce says Government’s ‘Trumpian move’ will ‘all but end’ public interest environmental litigation here

‘Risk aversion is holding us back,’ Chambers tells engineers’ conference

Inside Politics: Spending ‘diktats’ from Jack Chambers are ‘going down like a lead balloon’, according to one Minister

But legal challenges are expected to new fee scale, which is opposed by lawyers

Measures perceived as ‘diktats’ among some colleagues and ‘going down like a lead balloon’

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Spending last year came in €4bn beyond what the Government sanctioned in previous budget

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is exerting more and more influence

Both expected to isolate in quarantine for about five weeks after returning from Tenerife on Government jet

Expenditure control framework to be finalised shortly by Department of Public Expenditure

Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State

Fianna Fáil’s Malcolm Byrne believes meeting could also head off media efforts to find disputes between parties

HSE chief reveals ‘significantly worsened’ financial position in March when €250m overrun recorded in first quarter

Harris and Chambers are under pressure from their own backbenchers to keep the purse strings loose

If a State body is seriously proposing to impact on the environment, it should have overriding public interest stitched in from the outset

Designation would oblige public bodies to smooth the path of offshore wind farm projects in so far as their statutory powers allow

State agency has legal obligation to deliver a building for €70m project, but recently told Public Accounts Committee it had no funding for it

Jack Chambers tells Oireachtas committee engagement on this issue is under way within Government

Call comes following comments by Jack Chambers on Tuesday that budget ‘didn’t give workers a break’

Inflation is a concern, says Simon Harris

Ministers warn windfall driven by corporation tax may not last as calls grow to extend fuel supports and energy credits

‘Severe’ scenario could mean inflation hits 6% – but economy is expected to continue to grow

Inside Politics: Connolly to make call on referring Bill after ‘intense’ Council of State meeting

Despite expected growth, future spending increases and pledges may come under review

Workers’ living standards squeezed, Ictu chief says, with Coalition listening to ‘those who shout the loudest’

Green Party says move is ‘death’ of climate act