Changes due within weeks to the State’s planning laws to quicken the construction of large projects are “more important” than the spending talks with Cabinet ministers in advance of next week’s budget, the Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers said, addressing a British-Irish Chamber of Commerce conference. Promising the most ambitious reforms “seen for decades”, the Minister said they would result in “peeling back a lot of the guidance, the public administration which is getting in the way of delivery”. “Ultimately, for me, making the case for reform is more important than the discussion that we have about who gets what next Tuesday in terms of Budget 2026,” Mr Chambers said. Narrow interests by individuals “are blocking broader social and economic objectives”, he said, while administrative hurdles faced by State planners and councils often do not “add value and only adds time and delays”.
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