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 · The Premature State: Why Ireland Can’t Build Itself · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

And that's quite worrying.

Yeah, I mean, you know, basically we can look at our history and see that quite a lot of this has to do with where we come from, not necessarily of where we are today.

So like, for example, we were a former, we are a former British colony.

And so for many, many years, we did not independently get to make decisions about what infrastructure we're building, how we're spending money, what that money goes on, what our assets, our resources are, because those were made for us on behalf of us.

That is, in effect,

the nature of what a colony was back then and what it meant to be colonialized.

We then managed to kind of get rid of the British colony, but then something interesting happened.

And that gap was filled by other institutions.

In Ireland, it was really the Catholic church.

So the Catholic church had a huge involvement in the planning capacity that a state would usually do.

They were involved in education heavily.

They were involved in healthcare hospitals and

And this kind of filled that gap temporarily.

Now, another strange kind of thing happened as religion started to leave a lot of the planning aspects of the government.

We became an EU member state.

And if you look actually quite interestingly, I had a discussion about this recently.

if you look at the infrastructure that we have actually built so so part of the issue is that today that infrastructure firstly we haven't built new infrastructure but the existing infrastructure is not fit for purpose but but let's look at where that existing infrastructure came from and that in itself is interesting when we became an eu member state the eu basically said look you guys need roads or something like we have standards and i'm sorry but you're just not meeting them

So they gave us a list of things we had to do.

They gave us a list of how we should do them, when we should do them by, and they gave us money to do them.

And we did them.

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