Because the government who implement these large scale projects may not be in power when they are executed, meaning they don’t get the glory, so why bother!
We have such reactionary governments.
Sure it’ll be grand.
Because we are 🤡s
Have you not seen the new baseball caps for the gardai?
Sure the market will sort it all!
Some of it is down to the way projects are funded, some of it is down to way the projects are managed. A lot of the issues that plaguing us now were predicated years back as the piece says.
But to give an example of what I mean: other countries can build railways much cheaper as they are always building and updating railways. Politicians have less direct control over the finances and control of the companies. It is more democratic but less effective for delivering projects. To plan longer term longer term politicians would have give up control like the yearly budgets would see far less change. Taxes and spending would be changed less often. Also politicians would be less able to affect change. This would be a very big change for the way the state is being run. And the first lesson in learning to manage large scale changes: change is hard, expensive, lot of people don’t like it or understand the need for it so why bother? And you won’t be able to implement all of it and it may not work. What is there now sort of works. Lots of powerful civil servants, unions, interest groups and politicians would be against it and for good reasons.
Edit: for the record I do think we need to start long term planning of projects. The lack of it is starting to damage the country.
*why has the world shown a striking reluctance to plan for its future
Plans would include checks and balances. The opposite of Irish governments MO
Imagine if we actually did something with the Celtic tiger money we had and funneled it into health service and transit industry. Or housing and construction industry.
Now imagine they did that with EU funding and realise you should probably drag your local TD over hot coals for still being in this predicament years later.
At this stage , copying the neighbours homework will result In a net win overall. You have cheap/amazing transit system in Europe . They might hate it and think it’s shit but imagine going halfway through a country like Italy on a high speed train for twenty quid when it takes 3 hours to get to Dublin and cost you fifty quid.
Not enough housing? Well why not build some high rise apartments in the same plot as those 3 or 4 three bed mansions with no planning permission bar a nod and an envelope to the local TD who owns the land but bangs on about foreigners coming over here taking advantage of the system.
Yes the wages are lower in Europe but that’s only because we basically are a welcome mat for multinationals who come here for the tax breaks. If France and Italy and Spain can do all these things without multinational companies skirting tax rules and not getting nearly as much of the EU kitty, what’s our fucking excuse.
Plan? This is Ireland. How *dare* you!
Actually the country is creaking under the weight of plans and schemes and schedules for those but it’s all hot air. No one expects any of the main targets in Ireland 2040 to be achieved do they?
We’ve known for years that the grid would need upgrading as EV numbers grow and heat pumps start to become part of housing design but have we?
A big thing is that from top to bottom most Irish people don’t actually see Ireland as a real country. It’s a mental block that impacts everything.
Planning for the future means investing taxpayer money.
This can lead to increase in taxes or people being worried they will be affected in the short term.
This can affect the reputation of the elected officials who I would bet have widely less skills or know how about their sector and are only in the job as it’s easy money and influence.
So to avoid this they will only spend money when it’s absolutely necessary which is anywhere from 5-20years after the time its needed
Legitimate question when do people stop always planning for the future and just simply be in the present. Is it just impossible to do? Is there too much of a trade-off? Because if we’re always looking to the Future then eventually we won’t be planning for anything except our death and all of a sudden our whole lives have just blitzed by.
Because most people vote for their local TD cause he sorted the potholes and excess dog shit in their estate.
Democratic governments are just a reflection of their people. How many people you know really do any sort of future planning?
Ah sure it’ll be grand.
Fuck the future, life is happening now.
There is absolutely a plan for Ireland’s future.
I honestly believe the people in power currently could get 5 trillion handed to them tomorrow, to spend on Ireland however they wish, and they still would not put it to good use.
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Because the government who implement these large scale projects may not be in power when they are executed, meaning they don’t get the glory, so why bother!
We have such reactionary governments.
Sure it’ll be grand.
Because we are 🤡s
Have you not seen the new baseball caps for the gardai?
Sure the market will sort it all!
Some of it is down to the way projects are funded, some of it is down to way the projects are managed. A lot of the issues that plaguing us now were predicated years back as the piece says.
But to give an example of what I mean: other countries can build railways much cheaper as they are always building and updating railways. Politicians have less direct control over the finances and control of the companies. It is more democratic but less effective for delivering projects. To plan longer term longer term politicians would have give up control like the yearly budgets would see far less change. Taxes and spending would be changed less often. Also politicians would be less able to affect change. This would be a very big change for the way the state is being run. And the first lesson in learning to manage large scale changes: change is hard, expensive, lot of people don’t like it or understand the need for it so why bother? And you won’t be able to implement all of it and it may not work. What is there now sort of works. Lots of powerful civil servants, unions, interest groups and politicians would be against it and for good reasons.
Edit: for the record I do think we need to start long term planning of projects. The lack of it is starting to damage the country.
*why has the world shown a striking reluctance to plan for its future
Plans would include checks and balances. The opposite of Irish governments MO
Imagine if we actually did something with the Celtic tiger money we had and funneled it into health service and transit industry. Or housing and construction industry.
Now imagine they did that with EU funding and realise you should probably drag your local TD over hot coals for still being in this predicament years later.
At this stage , copying the neighbours homework will result In a net win overall. You have cheap/amazing transit system in Europe . They might hate it and think it’s shit but imagine going halfway through a country like Italy on a high speed train for twenty quid when it takes 3 hours to get to Dublin and cost you fifty quid.
Not enough housing? Well why not build some high rise apartments in the same plot as those 3 or 4 three bed mansions with no planning permission bar a nod and an envelope to the local TD who owns the land but bangs on about foreigners coming over here taking advantage of the system.
Yes the wages are lower in Europe but that’s only because we basically are a welcome mat for multinationals who come here for the tax breaks. If France and Italy and Spain can do all these things without multinational companies skirting tax rules and not getting nearly as much of the EU kitty, what’s our fucking excuse.
Plan? This is Ireland. How *dare* you!
Actually the country is creaking under the weight of plans and schemes and schedules for those but it’s all hot air. No one expects any of the main targets in Ireland 2040 to be achieved do they?
We’ve known for years that the grid would need upgrading as EV numbers grow and heat pumps start to become part of housing design but have we?
A big thing is that from top to bottom most Irish people don’t actually see Ireland as a real country. It’s a mental block that impacts everything.
Planning for the future means investing taxpayer money.
This can lead to increase in taxes or people being worried they will be affected in the short term.
This can affect the reputation of the elected officials who I would bet have widely less skills or know how about their sector and are only in the job as it’s easy money and influence.
So to avoid this they will only spend money when it’s absolutely necessary which is anywhere from 5-20years after the time its needed
Legitimate question when do people stop always planning for the future and just simply be in the present. Is it just impossible to do? Is there too much of a trade-off? Because if we’re always looking to the Future then eventually we won’t be planning for anything except our death and all of a sudden our whole lives have just blitzed by.
Because most people vote for their local TD cause he sorted the potholes and excess dog shit in their estate.
Democratic governments are just a reflection of their people. How many people you know really do any sort of future planning?
Ah sure it’ll be grand.
Fuck the future, life is happening now.
There is absolutely a plan for Ireland’s future.
I honestly believe the people in power currently could get 5 trillion handed to them tomorrow, to spend on Ireland however they wish, and they still would not put it to good use.
Because its run by clowns.