Earlier this week, Stephen wrote about the capacity bottlenecks in Ireland’s state apparatus and argued that the country needed 100,000 additional civil servants – not only to do more, but just to keep up with the demands of a growing population and private sector. Ibec’s chief economist Gerard Brady says nothing else. In conversation with Stephen on today’s podcast, Brady says: “We need more public servants in the right areas, we need more regulators, not less, we need people who are capable of delivering on the plans and organisations that have the capacity to deliver on private investment.” State agencies…

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