Sinead O'Sullivan

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721 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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The David McWilliams Podcast · Rich Country, Broken State · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

within the political class.

And that person might not be able to spell the words that they're trying to reform.

That is a crude way to put it.

But we don't have any sort of expertise, nor do we have any structural way of making sure that the people with that expertise are in the room when things are happening.

Yeah, and I... Well, I think it was then reduced to Birmingham and it's now reduced to a 50-mile...

high-speed pass motorway, which you're probably going to be able to drive faster past.

I wanted you to bring that up for one reason, right?

The HS2 project is perfectly good at this.

People will say, well, if the UK has this great system of accountability where they have, you know, delivery as a trained profession and Ireland doesn't, explain to me how they weren't able to do HS2.

To which I would say...

This named person and this accountability part is one of four locks, right?

So HS2 did not fail because it had one person that was accountable and that's all it takes.

But that's a pretty important part of it.

And it is the lowest hanging fruit in Ireland.

We actually are probably somewhat similar to the UK in terms of, you know, the fourth lock, which is that, you know, can we get our policies to survive multiple governments?

We are pretty similar to them when it comes to the fact that we have no slack.

We are decidedly worse when it comes to accountability against politicians who rotate governments.

And let's talk about the fact that, you know, the Irish political class do great PowerPoint presentations and what they...

on the reforms that they think somebody ultimately else should enact, but that they would like to see.

And you hear more about these reforms that they wish, actually, once they leave government in the opinion pages of newspapers, David, that you and I write in.

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