Ireland is a rich country in the sense that median household incomes are higher than most other countries in the world, life expectancy is relatively higher, maternal health is good, and our democracy is stable. Our population is growing rapidly. Like just about every country except Qatar and Norway, Ireland has a series of infrastructural deficits. It cannot house its people, move them around without cars, or put in place effective barriers against climate change. Ireland needs to get better at infrastructure, from planning it to financing it to delivering it to maintaining it. This column asks: What is infrastructure,…

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