Get Shit Done

Ireland tends to take a legalistic approach to our problems, but is this holding us back? We talk the impacts of taking a legal approach to problems and talk about what changing it might look like.

Hosted by Keire Murphy and Aidan Regan.

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Last week, we talked about Ireland's public finances, the political wrangling that happens around them every year, and the stories we tell about them that aren't true. But does that miss a more important story - all the things that we could fix without spending any extra money? Are we just throwing money at problems instead of fixing their root cause? Keire talks to Seán Keyes who talks about some things we could fix for free that would have a big impact on Ireland's big problems.

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It's budget season, and that means one thing: a lot of analysis saying that Irish public spending is out of control, and that we're spending too much. But Ireland is the lowest spender in the EU, so how can that be true? What's fact and what's ideology in the analysis we all hear? And what's actually wrong with Irish public finances?

Hosted by Keire Murphy and Aidan Regan.

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Ireland effectively has two economies: the international economy, where wages and purchasing power is higher, and the domestic economy, where wages are lower. Some of the international economy is real, and some of it is fake - but we are highly dependent on it. This creates major social and governance challenges.

Hosted by Keire Murphy and Aidan Regan.

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Getting shit done means having the people to do it. But the Irish civil service is a bit of a black box. In this episode, we talk about how the civil service works, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it could work better.

Hosted by Keire Murphy and Aidan Regan.

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