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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But let's talk about one, right?
And this is probably the most important one in terms of being able to fix a lot of things that are unique to Ireland, because a lot of people have correctly said, well, everywhere kind of struggles with these things.
Right.
So I'm going to start with, and probably the one that we should focus most of our attention on, is accountability.
The very first one, that there is a person whose job it is to do something, and that this is going to shock everyone.
They do it.
They do the thing, right?
Like, that's it.
That we could turn into a 400-page book, but that's it, really.
It's interesting, and I think it really comes down to this discrepancy between who works for the government and who doesn't, right?
Like on the face of it, this is such a boring thing I'm going to talk about, but it explains so much of this kind of dysfunction.
You basically have a lot of kind of NGOs or people or whatever, organizations that are kind of functioning as a state of Ireland, but they're not the state, right?
And they are uncontrollable.
Not that they're out of control, but that they could not be controlled if the state tried for the reasons that we've mentioned.
which means that the state can only make accountable the politicians or the civil servants or the government side of things, which control the parts that they can do, right?
And that is mostly expenditure.
So when you see somebody called before the public accounts committee, the question that they're asked is, did you overspend on something?
It is never, did you deliver that thing?
Because the delivery is nearly always outside of the official remit of the government in this kind of bulging NGO kind of government, but not quite government sector.
And so within the space of never being able to control the outcome, why would you try?
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