Dr. Conor McCabe

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Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media · A booming economy & struggling society ?Ireland’s economy explained with Conor McCabe · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

It's a technical kind of term, I suppose.

So it's not the entire kind of budget for everything.

There are tens of billions that is non-voted and that's not part then of the budget.

That's just every year that's being spent on... It's rollover.

It doesn't need the Dawes kind of agreement, you know, eating.

Each and every year, you know.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know off... I can't quote offhand.

What I do know is that it is smaller.

Now, that is sometimes kind of explained by...

uh, by our lack of a military, you know?

And so, so that was, so that's then seen as, as being skewered, but it is smaller.

Like we do have a kind of smaller state than, than is sometimes kind of, that I think I recognize, but going back to like,

Like Evan talks about, you know, Ireland is a world leader and it's just kind of, it's like Ireland's, like the cost of like, the size of the Irish economy is about the same as the British NHS.

About 100, you know, so 100, 110 billion.

So in terms of running the DLHS, its entire budget is around the same as the cost of running the entire state of Ireland.

So what that tells me then is that whatever problems we have, they're certainly not insurmountable.

What we're dealing with is an ideology, is an institutional common sense, which is quite skewered towards FDI.

And we have seen this, and this may kind of lead into it, in terms of housing, whereby there was a change in the operational, there has been a change in the operational logic of housing in the last 15 years.

Yeah, I mean, like that is 100%, like that is completely, like I completely agree with everything you've said there.

And the housing, it's a very good, it's a very good working model for seeing that because up to 2008, I mean, like again, like, you know, this is more for the, like you've written books about this, you know, but like, you know, like there was a certain,

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