Sinead O'Sullivan

decide ourselves to build something because somebody else has always made that decision for us.

So now the EU is not here.

Britain is not here.

The Catholic Church is less involved in Irish way of life.

And we're left with a government that's saying, hang on a second, why can we not build anything?

Because they've never built anything before.

We're many layers in deep here.

So I want to, again, come to one main point, which is kind of connecting all of these things.

So at the minute, I'm running a road safety campaign, and I'll give you one more data point to show you how far we are from the European average.

The number of deaths on Irish roads is up 32%.

year on year, the EU average is down 12%.

So why are we 44% away from the EU average?

And that, you know, the number compared to the Nordics is just shocking.

A lot of this, if you go by sector by sector and look at what we're missing in each of these, whether it's construction, whether it's hospitals, whether it's healthcare, road safety, a lot of this comes back to accountability.

A lot of the way that the Irish system has been created has been specifically designed, now whether intentionally or just as a byproduct of what it is, in a way that is so diffused that there is no responsibility or accountability onto one minister, one person, one form of leadership that says, I am responsible for this.

I am accountable.

It didn't happen.

That is my problem.

Let's resolve a reform or restructure this.

And it really doesn't matter which project.