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 Pat Kenny Show · In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure? · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

And this graph really gets to the point of what do we mean by wealth?

So for many years, we kind of hear these top line numbers about our tax revenue, about how well we're doing in terms of literacy and longevity and outcomes.

But what I'm actually interested in is not the actual outcomes, but the infrastructure that we have.

So what impacts us all day every day?

How long is our commute to work?

How many cars do people have to own to be able to get around?

What is the cost of our health care?

Can we actually even go to see the GP?

I mean, I actually moved to Ireland.

I've spent most of my career working in the U.S.

When I moved to Ireland for a year and have subsequently left because of some of the issues discussed in that article,

I could not get a GP.

It's quite extraordinary.

This is a lifestyle.

Ultimately, you know, people might say, well, Ireland, in Ireland, we have extraordinarily good, I guess we live the longest, you know, or some of our health issues.

outcomes are the best in europe but my argument to that would be we might live for a very long time but we live at a low quality of life in these everyday mundane things that actually determine how happy we are on a day-to-day basis now the question is why are these missing and who is supposed to provide them and in my article i go into great depth about well the government is supposed to provide these very basic things

And because the government has simply not provided them, we have all found these kind of weird workarounds.

So, for example, people will buy two cars instead of having one.

We know in the richest European capitals, people have zero cars.

So having more cars is actually not an indicator of wealth.

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