Dr. Conor McCabe
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first heard Dec 2025
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And that's what you're really going to aim it towards.
But you try explaining that to Enterprise Ireland and to IDA and it's just glassed over eyes because that's not how we do things here.
The operational common sense in Ireland is,
in terms of what the economy is for, is very, very skewed.
It's all skewed towards servicing FDI.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
It's a much more different one.
It's one that then can recognize that the state is not... Going back to your point there about how the public sector is seen, that the state is seen as a drain on the economy, which is hilarious.
The single largest purchaser of goods and services in this state is the state itself.
The state itself, yeah.
you know?
I mean, like... Your mom can tell you that.
Jesus Christ, absolutely, you know?
I mean, that's a whole new, that's a whole different one.
You know, that's a whole different thing as well.
But, like, the budget is what gets kind of headline figures and the budget was, what, 11, 10 billion there last month or so.
But the state spends around, like, it costs around 110 billion to run Ireland as a state each year.
That's everything because the budget is just,
It's just voted expenditure.
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