{"id":646826,"date":"2026-10-06T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646826\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:56:10","slug":"chambers-rubbishes-any-suggestion-ai-used-in-budget-speech-after-td-labels-him-jack-gpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646826\/","title":{"rendered":"Chambers rubbishes any suggestion AI used in budget speech after TD labels him ‘Jack GPT’"},"content":{"rendered":"

LABOUR\u2019S FINANCE SPOKESPERSON Ged Nash was quick off the mark with his criticism of Finance Minister Simon Harris and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers in the D\u00e1il after they delivered Budget 2027.<\/p>\n

Nash, who last year made headlines<\/a> after deeming Budget 2026 (which had a focus on supports for the hospitality sector and housing developers) one for \u201cburger barons and big builders\u201d, was once again cutting in his assessment of this year\u2019s package.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere you have it. The first budget of two, delivered by \u2018Soundbite Simon\u2019 and \u2018Jack GPT\u2019,\u201d Nash deadpanned in the D\u00e1il this afternoon as his party leader Ivana Bacik beamed beside him, clearly tickled by Nash\u2019s use of alliteration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expected little, and they haven\u2019t disappointed,\u201d Nash said, before criticising what he deemed a \u201clack of honesty\u201d at the heart of this budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe T\u00e1naiste told us this was a workers\u2019 budget \u2013 some hard neck,\u201d he said, adding that workers will be left disappointed by this year\u2019s announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nash\u2019s nickname for the public expenditure minister may have been borne from the style of language used in his budget speech, which exhibited some similarities to AI-generated writing.<\/p>\n

For example, AI-generated text often relies on saying something is \u2018not just X, it is Y\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBudget 2027 is not just an exercise in allocation; it\u2019s also an exercise in reform,\u201d Chambers said at one point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is Ireland\u2019s agri-food sector supporting jobs and exports, but it\u2019s also the driving force of our rural communities,\u201d he said at another.<\/p>\n

When he was later asked by The Journal about his new nickname and whether he used artificial intelligence to help write his budget speech, Chambers was defiant:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201dAbsolutely not. Not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he wasn\u2019t in the D\u00e1il chamber for Nash\u2019s remarks, but stressed that his budget speech was \u201cvery much written in the direction I\u2019ve been bringing the budgetary process in the last number of weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Journal<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think we reflected that and got good feedback from many people about the speech we delivered today,\u201d the minister said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others in the D\u00e1il this afternoon also opted to inject some colour into their critiques of this year\u2019s budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Independent TD Paul Gogarty (well known for his colourful and sometimes unparliamentary language) told his fellow TDs that this budget was more \u201cWestlife than Fontaine\u2019s D.C\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a few crowd pleasers, heavy on cover versions, something again for everyone in the audience, but nothing of real substance,\u201d the Dublin Midwest TD said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gogarty may have forgotten that Westlife has just finished a record-breaking 13-date run at the 3Arena.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the fans in his constituency won\u2019t hold the comment against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LABOUR\u2019S FINANCE SPOKESPERSON Ged Nash was quick off the mark with his criticism of Finance Minister Simon Harris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,17629,218,219,166626,274586,44788,61,60,13808,80],"class_list":["post-646826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artifical-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-budget-2027","tag-dail-nicknames","tag-ged-nash","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-chambers","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646826","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=646826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}