Sinead O'Sullivan
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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No one is incentivized.
It's not even an incentives problem.
It's a structural problem that they're not.
able to do it.
And in the example I give in Sláinte care, because of where those people were sitting within the system they were trying to reform, they were actually reporting to the very entities that they were trying to restructure.
So, I mean, I'm not sure if anyone's tried to fire their own boss before, but that's never happened as far as I've ever seen.
Yeah, it's that the Irish government can't actually see the system that it's trying to transform.
Let me just explain a little bit more about that.
Ireland is quite unique in that because, again, of how the state kind of came into being, that we very, very early on, you know, before the state had even properly formed, we had loads of different entities that were providing services like healthcare, education to people without the state's mandate.
And so when the state was formed, the state kind of grew up around these entities.
And so you kind of had this dual system in the government, which is very unique, by which you had these kind of NGOs that delivered things plus the government that delivered other things.
The problem is that the size of the NGOs in number and in terms of their responsibility is so huge that the government, even if it wants to reform what the NGOs deliver, cannot see what they're actually doing, how much they're spending, and all the rest of it.
I mean, there are literally 2,000, more than 2,000 examples.
But like in healthcare, for example, so much, I mean, health services is such a big part of this, which is why slanted care was so urgent and necessary and never ended up happening.
But like, if you look at private hospitals that actually get paid, and again, we've talked on this podcast about this,
The state will pay more money of taxpayers to give it to a private entity to do on behalf of the government, but never build the capability itself.
Healthcare is where this is more prevalent than nearly anywhere else.
So you have all of these kind of NGOs in the healthcare sector doing private work.
whether it's private MRIs or private breast checks or all the rest of it, because the state didn't do that.
Well, guess what?
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