One factor keeps coming up in the constant discussion about Ireland’s failure to deliver the volume of housing and infrastructure its people need: poor demographic forecasting. If participants are to be believed, however, the coming weeks are set to see the best effort yet to plug this gap. Contributors to The Currency have repeatedly highlighted how what may seem like an academic exercise impacts on real life. When the CSO updated its population forecasts out to 2057 last July, Ronan highlighted how similar previous publications after every census except one since 1986 had underestimated demographic growth. While this helps explain…

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