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It’s a while since a single opinion piece generated as much discussion as John Collison’s essay in The Irish Times last week. In a wide-ranging critique of Ireland’s inability to build homes and infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing population, the co-founder of the software company Stripe described a sclerotic State that has been engineered to fail.
In his analysis, politicians - in part responding to a collapse in public trust after a series of scandals - have ceded control to a fast-growing network of government agencies, quangos and regulators, resulting in labyrinthine overlapping systems of sometimes contradictory mandates and incentives that ultimately cannot work towards the common goo
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