Sinead O'Sullivan

What we might one day call or, you know, might popularly call short termism is actually the fact that the government are just really good at distributing things.

We never really learned how to coordinate anything because whether it was the British Empire, the EU, the Catholic Church did all that coordination for us.

But we do have a really strong muscle when it comes to distributing proceeds.

And so the first and pretty much the only tool that the government has when it comes to problem solving, and this is a very, by the way, this is one of the more complex problems that the government has had to solve in many years.

And the tools that they have are binary, right?

They can't coordinate anything, which requires extraordinary skill and is built through institutions over decades.

But we're good at distributing capital.

And in this case, it's a subsidy.

And it's a three-month subsidy.

So whether you want to call it a short-term thinking, I like to think of it in terms of it's another distribution.

It's another distribution.

But all of our problems are coordination problems.

And so we don't have the tools.

We cannot fix a coordination problem with a distribution tool, which is subsidy spending.

So it's always, yes, it's short term, but in the long term, the problem is the same.

Yeah, I mean, in Ireland's case, the adults were never here.

I mean, the adults were external, right?

So, like, we were never the adults.

I don't know.

Are we just a bunch of orphans?