{"id":263454,"date":"2026-01-25T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263454\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:36:12","slug":"no-delays-or-excuses-allowed-finance-minister-warns-departments-in-race-to-protect-economy-against-trumps-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/263454\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No delays or excuses allowed\u2019, Finance Minister warns departments in race to protect economy against Trump\u2019s chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">T\u00e1naiste warns departments they have \u2018no excuses\u2019 for increasing competitiveness amid global chaos\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris says a \u20ac200bn plan for investment in infrastructure is being fast-tracked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dd3030e7-9589-4f82-b6a9-f5521f2ab64b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris says a \u20ac200bn plan for investment in infrastructure is being fast-tracked<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f3nal Thomas, Sean Pollock and Fearghal O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris has warned Government departments that there can be no excuses or delays when it comes to increasing Ireland\u2019s competitiveness in the face of chaos caused by US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking to the Sunday Independent last night, Mr Harris said: \u201cThe biggest risk for Ireland and for Europe is that we nearly pretend this week didn\u2019t happen. It\u2019s a somewhat calmer environment than it was a couple of days ago, but it is a stark reminder of how quickly things can go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste warns departments they have \u2018no excuses\u2019 for increasing competitiveness amid global chaos T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris says a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,71077,969,113,6353,1556,61,60,1843,5913,70,63762],"class_list":{"0":"post-263454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-conal-thomas","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","13":"tag-helen-mcentee","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-micheal-martin","17":"tag-sean-pollock","18":"tag-simon-harris","19":"tag-st-patricks-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}