‘Ireland is good in a crisis but can’t manage success’, says crisis era mandarin

John Moran: the former general secretary of the Department of Finance under Michael Noonan is running to become mayor of Limerick. Picture: Enda O'Dowd

If you have realistic targets for your demand needs in housing and you have a plan to deliver them, people will relax and prices will go down He served as secretary general of the department between 2012 and 2014, working closely with former finance minister Michael Noonan, who credits Moran with making a lot of the decisions. He also served on the European Investment Bank’s board between 2013 and 2018 and chaired the Land Development Agency between 2019 and 2021.

The most significant power they will wield, however, is proposing the annual €1 billion budget for Limerick City and County Council. We have this idea that you can build all the homes in Ireland just using government money, which is just impossible Voters in Waterford and Cork voted down the option of having similar mayoral votes in their jurisdictions. The vote in Limerick, Moran says, was passed largely because Limerick notables like the Rubberbandits, rugby star Paul O’Connell and several NGOs rowed in behind the idea.

“Because the market knew the numbers were right, the entire problem of Ireland turned around in that instance – because they believed our targets,” he says.

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